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Two Israelis wounded in stabbing attack in Jerusalem

Suspected attacker was shot dead by Israeli police

May 31, 2019 08:11
Israeli medics removed the body of a Palestinian shot by police after stabbing two men in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
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Two Israeli men were wounded - one critically - in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday morning.

Israeli police shot dead the suspected assailant, a 19-year old Palestinian man from the West Bank.

A man in his 50s was treated by medics after being stabbed in the head and neck near the Damascus Gate before being rushed to Shaare Zedek Hospital.

The second victim, a teenager, was wounded in the back outside the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter.