Israeli police are searching Wednesday morning for the alleged perpetrator of a knife attack that injured a woman in the back in a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, part of the occupied holy city annexed by the Hebrew state.
Police reported that a woman was stabbed "
at the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah's neighborhood
" and was evacuated for treatment.
"
Police forces have been deployed in large numbers to the scene and are looking for a suspect who has fled,
" the police continued in a statement.
The young woman who was slightly injured in the back in the attack is 26 years old according to the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem which took care of her.
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Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and Israel have been the scene from October 2015 and for months of anti-Israel attacks, most often committed by young isolated Palestinians.
This violence has since diminished in intensity, but persists sporadically.
On the night of Sunday to Monday, a Palestinian teenager was killed at a crossing point between Israel and the occupied West Bank as he tried to run over soldiers, injuring a guard, according to Israeli authorities.
And on Saturday a Palestinian carried out a knife attack, injuring at least one person in central Jerusalem, before being shot dead by law enforcement.
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An Israeli was killed and three others injured on November 22 in a rare gun attack by a Palestinian Hamas member in East Jerusalem.
Today, some 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians.
Israeli colonization, illegal under international law, has continued under all Israeli governments since 1967.
