An Israeli soldier has been stabbed and critically wounded by a Palestinian near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday, police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised further concern about a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country’s business capital. Yahoo! News reports:
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam’s third holiest site and where biblical Jewish temples once stood. Stone-throwing protests have also erupted in several Arab towns in Israel since Saturday, when police killed an Arab youth who assaulted them.
A spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service said the Israeli soldier, aged about 20, was rushed to hospital after Monday’s stabbing in Tel Aviv.
“I saw the terrorist, in a red shirt and jeans, running in the direction of Levanda Street … I chased him, and came back and saw the soldier writhing on the ground,” an unidentified witness said on Israel Radio.
Police said the attacker had stabbed the soldier several times and they arrested a suspect, a Palestinian from the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. They said the assault was apparently politically motivated.
