Israeli man, 20, lightly wounded in Jerusalem stabbing

Victim attacked in Pisgat Zeev neighborhood; police investigating whether attack was criminal or nationalistic

By ToI Staff 12 May 2016, 7:41 am

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A 20-year-old was stabbed and lightly wounded in northern Jerusalem on Thursday morning, police said.

The young man was attacked in the city’s Pisgat Zeev neighborhood and stabbed in his upper body.

His assailant escaped and officials said it was not immiediately clear whether the attack was criminal or nationalistic in nature.

Paramedics treated the victim at the scene and evacuated him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital for further treatment.

Israel, and particularly Jerusalem, has seen a wave of Palestinian stabbing, shooting, and car-ramming attacks since October that has left 29 Israelis and four foreigners dead.

Some 200 Palestinians were killed in the same period, most of them as they carried out attacks against Israelis and the remainder in violent protests in the West Bank, according to the IDF.

In October, two East Jerusalem teenagers, 13 and 15, stabbed two Israelis in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood, including a 12-year-old boy. Ahmed Manasra, now 14, was convicted for the attack on Tuesday; his cousin was killed at the scene by security forces. In November, an Israeli security guard at the light rail station in the north Jerusalem neighborhood was stabbed by two Arab boys, 11 and 13, in a similar attack.