JERUSALEM—A Palestinian assailant stabbed two police officers outside Jerusalem’s Old City early on Monday and was shot, police said, following a bloody weekend that shattered weeks of relative calm.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a female police officer was stabbed in the neck and badly wounded while a male officer was moderately injured. Officers shot at the assailant and critically wounded him, she said.
Samri said the assailant is in his 20s and from east Jerusalem.
The incident outside Herod’s Gate, near a bustling Palestinian commercial street, follows a weekend surge in Palestinian attacks that shattered weeks of relative calm.
Israeli border police officers search a Palestinian man near the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's old city, Sept. 19, 2016. AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean
