Member of Israel Police Wounded Friday (16.05.2025) in attack with knife In its old town Jerusalem, He announced his service, adding that the perpetrator was “eliminated”.
The police officer was “stabbed in the old city of Jerusalem”, according to an Israeli police statement. Immediately members of the security forces shot the ‘suspect’ with the knifewhich was “neutralized”, the same source added, without clarification.
Police then announced that a member of the attack was “suspected” of the perpetrator’s behavior before “at some point the terrorist attacks the police officer and injured him with a knife.”
Another police officer, as well as a member of the border guard, “reacted quickly and neutralized the terrorist. His death was found on the spot, “according to the same source. There has been no responsibility so far.
Magen David Adom, an Israeli organization corresponding to the Red Cross, said in a statement that it was “providing care on the spot” to the 25 -year -old police officer before being admitted to a hospital. The injured man “had his full senses”.
The incident was recorded near a gate through which access to Mosque Square, in East Jerusalem, a area of the Sanctuary for the faithful of the three religions of a city occupied and attached to Israel.
The third most sacred site of Islam, the mosques square, was built on the debris of the second Jewish temple, after its destruction in 70 AD. by the Romans. For the Jews it is the term of the temple, the most sacred place of Judaism.
It is in the heart of Israeli -Palestinian conflict and often causes tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians.