Two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, both attackers killed. Incident occur in a context of tensions fueled in Israel and the Palestinian territories by the war underway for four months between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In East Jerusalem's Old City, a man approached officers and "suddenly pulled out a knife and tried to stab them," a spokesperson said. Around the same time in Hussan, a village in the occupied West Bank 10 kilometers from Jerusalem, another assailant “tried to stab a soldier” Israeli deployed at a roadblock and was “neutralized” by the soldiers.