An Israeli police officer was stabbed Sunday outside Jerusalem's Old City, with the attacker shot and “neutralized”, police and medics said.
Police said a “suspect armed with a knife stabbed an officer” outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the city, a traditional flashpoint.
The officer was taken to hospital in moderate condition, police said, with medics saying the attacker was not dead.
Earlier,
Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian who tried to enter Israel through the Jewish state's barrier in the northern West Bank on Sunday, the army said, as a hospital reported his death.
Soldiers “identified a (person) trying to cross the security barrier… near Tul Karem,” a statement from the military said. “The force shot at him in accordance with procedures. The suspect was taken for medical care.”
A spokesman for the Sheba hospital in central Israel told AFP the Palestinian had died of his wounds, with the Palestinian health ministry identifying the deceased as Mahmud Eram.
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