A stabbing attack took place at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday morning.
Two Border Police officers were lightly to moderately wounded in the attack with stab wounds to the upper body, and the terrorist was eliminated.
Magen David Adom (MDA) teams provided medical treatment to the wounded at the site prior to evacuating them to Shaare Tzedek Hospital in the city.
A woman who suffered light wounds to the leg during the attack from shrapnel, inflicted as the security officers shot the terrorist, was given treatment at the scene.
Nachum Bernstein, deputy Jerusalem branch head of the United Hatzalah emergency medical group, said, “when I reached the scene I came across two youths fully conscious after knife stabs to the upper body, and another passerby in light condition who was injured in the leg due to the gunfire towards the terrorist who conducted the attack.”
“The quick actions of the security forces with the grace of God prevented the terrorist from harming other civilians.”
Friday’s stabbing comes in the shadow of another stabbing the day before at a Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin, in which 21-year-old Tuvia Yanai Weissman was murdered and 36-year-old Avi Avital was moderately wounded by two 14-year-old Arab terrorists.
Damascus Gate has become a central hot spot for attacks during the current wave of Arab terror that began last September.
A stabbing was prevented at the site on Tuesday, on Monday a 15-year-old female Palestinian Arab was arrested after a knife was found on her by alert security officers, and a shooting attempt by two Arab terrorists took place at the site on Sunday night.
The two on Sunday were shot by security personnel before they were able to inflict any injuries, and one of the assailants was later identified as a Palestinian Authority (PA) Security Force member.
Sunday night’s shooting attempt was a repeat of an attack two weeks ago on Wednesday, when three terrorists armed with sub-machine guns, bombs and knives opened fire on security personnel at the Damascus Gate, killing female Border Police officer Hadar Cohen before being eliminated.
