Israel, another attack: agent stabbed at the Damascus Gate

An Israeli agent was stabbed tonight at the Damascus Gate in the Old City in Jerusalem. The police said so, according to which the attacker was shot at by other officers and “neutralized”. The policeman was shot in the back and taken to hospital but the conditions, according to the media, are not serious.

The incident was recorded only a few days after the attack in the city of Elad, near the West Bank, last Thursday (Independence anniversary), when two attackers stabbed several people and caused three deaths. Today also the news that those responsible for the massacre were arrested and identified in the Palestinians Asad Yussef al-Rifai19 years old, e Subhi Imad Sbeihat, 20 years. “We said we were going to arrest the terrorists and we did it,” said the prime minister Naphtali Bennett.

In a separate incident this afternoon, a Palestinian citizen was hit by Israeli military bullets in the West Bank when, according to local authorities, he “illegally attempted to cross the security fence.” He is now in the hospital but there are no details on his condition.

There is also news that a group of Palestinians, apparently 4, tried to enter the Jewish settlement of Tekoa (West Bank) in a suspected attempted attack. One of them was killed by the reaction of the local armed guards. Public TV reports Able to according to which, according to preliminary information, the murdered man had tried to break into a house armed with a knife. The others have fled and the Israeli army is looking for them.

Since the end of March, Israel has suffered a long trail of aggression, with bombers of various backgrounds striking in Beersheva, Hadera, Bnai Berak and Tel Aviv, causing fifteen deaths. Ten days ago, another attack in the West Bank city of Ariel left another casualty. In addition, at least twenty Palestinians have been killed in recent clashes with the Israeli army during various operations in the Palestinian territories.

Last May, a similar spiral of violence, which had had as its initial focus the Old City of Jerusalem itself, had resulted in eleven days of severe conflict between Israel and Gaza.