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Border policeman seriously hurt in stabbing outside Jerusalem’s Old City
Suspected Palestinian assailant shot and seriously hurt; officer reportedly on life supportPalestinian man stabbed and seriously injured an Israeli Border Police officer Sunday outside Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, police said. An officer on the scene shot the suspected assailant.
The suspect was identified as an 18-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank, who was named by Arabic media as Yasser Yassin Tarwa of Hebron. He was seriously injured and sent to Hadassah Hospital.
The officer suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest and was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital after receiving treatment on site. The man was on life support in serious condition.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/border-policeman-stabbed-outside-jerusalems-damascus-gate/
