Male and female Border Police officers wounded in Jerusalem Old City stabbing attack; Palestinian attacker shot dead

Two Border Police officers were stabbed and lightly wounded in a stabbing attack before dawn in the Old City of Jerusalem, before shooting dead their assailant. The male officer was stabbed in the face. The female border guard was stabbed in the leg. The attacker, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was shot dead by the officers. Surveillance footage from the scene, released by police, shows the assailant running up to the officers and rapidly stabbing them with the knife. Prior to the stabbing attack, the assailant was also seen on camera pushing an Orthodox man to the ground in the alleyways of the Old City. Security forces and medics arrived at the scene and the two officers were taken to hospitals for further treatment, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.

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