Two zionist Israeli settlers, one critically, injured in retaliatory stabling near al-Quds Old City
At least two Israeli settlers have been injured, including one seriously, in a Palestinian retaliatory operation on a promenade near the Old City of al-Quds, as situation remains particularly volatile amid deadly Israeli military raids and rampages by extremist settlers on Palestinians.
The Israeli police said in a statement that the purported assailant, a 17-year-old Palestinian from East al-Quds, carried out the attack with a cleaver just outside the Jaffa Gate (Bab al-Khalil) entrance to the Old City on Wednesday.
The teenager, who attempted to flee the scene, was arrested by officers following a brief chase, the statement added.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said a 56-year-old man was seriously hurt after being stabbed in the upper body and a 17-year-old boy sustained a superficial stab wound to his abdomen.
Another woman in her 50s was treated by medics for acute anxiety.
Hamas reaction
The Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement welcomed the operation.
Mohammad Hamadeh, Hamas spokesman in al-Quds, called it a “natural response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation, in light of the incursions to al-Aqsa Mosque compound and its people, the demolition of homes, a displacement war, and attacks on freedom and education.”
The attack came less than two days after Israeli military forces violently kicked and arrested a Palestinian woman in the occupied Old City of al-Quds over an alleged stabbing attempt against the regime’s soldiers.
