Two Israelis were stabbed on Monday near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem.
Two men in their 20s, one of them a soldier, were stabbed on Shlomo Zalman Shraga Street in front of the Israel Police National Headquarters. They received medical attention on the scene before being evacuated to nearby Hadassah-University Medical Center on Mount Scopus in moderate and serious condition.
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The suspected terrorist, 17, was killed by a Border Police officer, the police said. Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) forces were dispatched to the scene.
Video posted on social media showed one of the victims wearing an IAF uniform. A knife was lodged in his back as he knelt on the ground and received treatment from medics.
Israel Police Insp.-Gen. Kobi Shabtai and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana arrived at the scene shortly after the attack. They held a briefing with security officers involved in investigating the attack and spoke with the Border Police officers who killed the terrorist.
“We pray for the recovery of those wounded in the stabbing attack at the [Israel Police] National Headquarters junction,” President Reuven Rivlin said in a statement.
He praised the security forces at the scene, saying they “acted quickly to neutralize the terrorist.”
“We will not allow this accursed terrorism to raise its head, and we will fight it without compromise,” he added.
The incident occurred near the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where the potential evictions of Palestinian families drew mass protests and helped spark 11 days of fighting between Israel and Gaza terrorists.
Tensions have been high in Sheikh Jarrah and at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City in recent weeks.
An Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held into a fourth day on Monday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to visit the region this week for talks with Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders.
