A Border Police cop was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack by a Turkish tourist in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday.
The assailant, identified by Israeli authorities as 34-year-old Turkish national Hassan Sıklan, was shot and killed by police officers on the scene. Sıklan entered Israel from Jordan via the Allenby Bridge on Monday.
Following the attack, all entrances to the Temple Mount were closed and a Palestinian crowd began rioting immediately after the attack.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said first responders found the injured policeman conscious with penetrating trauma in his upper body and he was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.
“We joined the police forces on the scene and saw a man in his 30s who had been stabbed in the upper part of his body,”…