An Israeli soldier and a civilian had been stabbed close to a light-weight rail station in east Jerusalem on Monday earlier than the assailant was shot and killed by police, who described it as a terrorist assault.
The assault got here within the tense aftermath of an 11-day struggle between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers that was triggered by protests and clashes in Jerusalem.
The Magen David Adom emergency service mentioned it handled two males of their early 20s with stab wounds to their higher our bodies. The navy recognized a kind of wounded as a soldier. Both had been being handled at close by hospitals.
Israeli rescue staff take away a physique from the scene of an assault in Jerusalem, Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP)
Police didn’t present any particulars concerning the attacker however referred to him as a “terrorist,” a time period often reserved for Palestinian assailants.
The stabbing came about in east Jerusalem, which Israel captured, together with the West, within the 1967 Mideast struggle.
The Palestinians need all three territories for his or her future state and consider east Jerusalem as their capital. Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a transfer not acknowledged internationally and considers your complete metropolis its unified capital.
