A 25-year-old police officer was moderately injured on Friday after being stabbed in the back in Jerusalem’s Old City, near the entrance to the Jail Gate, which leads to the Temple Mount
According to police and first responders, the attacker, a resident of the Beit Hanina neighborhood in Jerusalem, ran toward the officer and attacked him.
Other officers at the scene shot the attacker, who was shot and died at the scene.
The injured officer was taken to hospital, still conscious, according to first responders.
Police cordoned off the area of “”the attack and sent reinforcements to the scene.
Footage of the incident shows the attacker’s body on the ground, with blood all around.
The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, WAFA, reported that after the attack, police closed the Jail Gate, barred worshippers from entering, flew a drone over the Al-Aqsa Mosque and set up roadblocks in several Jerusalem neighborhoods.
The Jail Gate is located in the western part of the Temple Mount compound, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, is located.
In recent years, the area has been the scene of other attacks on civilians and Israeli security forces.
In 2021, a terrorist opened fire near the gate, killing one person and wounding four others.
The Hamas group claimed responsibility, saying the attacker was a member of its cell in the Shuafat refugee camp near Jerusalem.
In 2023, a 14-year-old from the same camp was arrested for stabbing and lightly wounding an Israeli teenager near the Jail Gate.
Published in 05/17/2025 05h11
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