Police officer stabbed in East Jerusalem, assailant killed

Palestinian stabbed, injured Israeli police officer before being killed in East Jerusalem, an area occupied and annexed by Israel, Monday October 30, according to a police press release. She said the attacker was a Palestinian from East Jerusalem.

The Israeli police first explained in a statement that a “suspicious” had “stabbed a police officer near the Mendelbaum gas station on Route 1 in Jerusalem”. She then clarified that the attacker had been “neutralized” after the police left for his “pursuit”.

The Shaare Tsedek hospital, where the injured police officer was transported, for its part claimed to have received a man in his thirties who had received “stab wounds to the chest”specifying that he was in a “serious but stable condition”.

The police officer in “serious but stable condition”

The attack came as Israeli forces intensified their ground offensive in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7. The conflict has left 1,400 dead in Israel, most of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities, and more than 8,300 dead in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas.

The situation in the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by Israel, is also extremely tense. At a time when colonization is intensifying, the territory is affected by an increase in violence. PrNearly 120 Palestinians have been killed by fire from Israeli soldiers or settlers since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel.