Border Police Officer Wounded in Stabbing at Damascus Gate, Assailant Killed
A Border Police officer was lightly wounded Sunday evening in a stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City. The assailant, identified as Ziad Abu Subeih, 33, from the Bedouin town of Ar’ara Banegev near Beersheba, attacked the officer with a sharp object before attempting to flee into the Old City, police said. Other Border Police officers shot the assailant, killing him on the scene.
Magen David Adom paramedics arrived promptly, providing immediate medical care to the wounded officer, who is in his 20s and was fully conscious. The officer, suffering from a wound to his upper body, was transported to a hospital.
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The attack follows a recent surge in violence, including the killing of an Israeli soldier at a West Bank bus stop and a shooting attack by a Jordanian truck driver at the Allenby crossing. The incidents coincide with a major counter-terror operation by the Israeli military in the northern West Bank and heightened tensions around the Temple Mount.
The Hamas terror group praised the stabbing as a “natural response” to perceived Israeli actions but did not claim responsibility. Israel remains at war with Hamas, following the group’s October 7 attack that killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. Since then, Israeli forces have arrested over 5,000 Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.
