A knife-wielding Palestinian assailant stabbed and critically injured a female Israeli soldier before being shot dead in annexed east Jerusalem on Monday.
Separately, the Palestinian health ministry reported that Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man and critically injured three others in the occupied West Bank town of Halhul.
“A terrorist armed with a knife arrived at Shalem police station and stabbed a female soldier. Border police forces neutralized the terrorist by shooting,” police said in a statement.
According to reports, police said a female soldier was seriously wounded and another suffered light injuries.
According to Israeli emergency services, the wounded, both 20 years old, received medical treatment.
Police identified the attacker as a young Palestinian from the east Jerusalem area of Issawiya.
It added that “another suspect” had been arrested near the scene of the attack, which has been cordoned off.
This is the latest outbreak of violence in the neighbourhood as Israel escalates its military onslaught in Gaza.
According to police, on October 30, a Palestinian stabbed and critically injured an Israeli police officer before being shot dead in east Jerusalem.
Israeli forces have increased their ground offensive in Gaza as part of the military reaction to the October 7 Hamas onslaught, which officials estimate killed 1,400 people, largely civilians, and took over 240 hostages.
