TEL AVIV: A knife-wielding Palestinian stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli police officer before being shot in annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, police said, as Israel deepened its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
"A man from east Jerusalem armed with a knife arrived at the Mandelbaum gas station in Jerusalem," police said in a statement.
"The man stabbed a border police officer, and after grabbing his gun and trying to shoot it, fled the scene," it said.
"Border police officers at the scene neutralised the man with gunfire," it said, without giving the attacker's identity or saying if he was alive.
Shaare Zedek hospital said it received a man in his 30s who had sustained "stab wounds to the torso", describing his condition as "serious but stable". --AFP