Israeli injured in suspected Palestinian stabbing in Jerusalem

An Israeli man was stabbed and injured near Jerusalem's Old City, in an incident suspected to be a "terror attack," the police said.

The stabbing occurred at the Lions' Gate in the eastern part of the Old City. Police said the attacker fled the scene. Police and Border Police forces launched a manhunt, closing off the eastern exit of the Old City.

At this point the police said there is a growing suspicion that the incident was a nationalist terror attack.

A spokesman for the Israeli medical emergency services said the victim, a 60-year-old Jewish man, was taken to a Jerusalem hospital in a moderate condition.

The incident came after a temporary cessation of a wave of stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks in Israel and the West Bank, which has claimed the lives of at least 200 Palestinians and 28 Israelis since mid-September 2015.

On Wednesday, a pair of Palestinian brother and sister, Maram Abu Ismayil, 23, and Ibrahim Salah Taha, 16, from the Palestinian village of Beit Suriq near Ramallah, were shot and killed at the Kalandia checkpoint, a major crossing point between Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The police said the pair continued to walk along after being warned, and that the woman pulled a kitchen knife from her bag and hurled it at a policeman standing next to her, resulting in the lethal shooting.

But Palestinians and human rights organizations claimed that Maram Abu Ismayil, a pregnant woman and a mother of two, and her brother were posing no threat and were executed.

The police refused to release video footage from CCTVs at the checkpoint. Endit