An Israeli Jew was stabbed and moderately wounded on Thursday in what
police described as a "terror attack" in the east Jerusalem
flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, police said.
"A young ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed in the upper part of
his body. He is moderately wounded," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld
told AFP.
"Two Arabs were arrested by police nearby the site of the attack on
suspicion of carrying out the stabbing, which we believe was a terror
attack."
Israel´s supreme court recently threw out an appeal by a Palestinian
family seeking to block construction of Jewish settler homes in
Sheikh Jarrah.
Although east Jerusalem is largely Palestinian, an increasing number
of hardline Israeli settlers have moved into the area´s
neighbourhoods, sparking fights with Arab residents.
An estimated 2,000 Jewish settlers live in Palestinian neighbourhoods
of the Holy City, although the exact number of properties they own is
unclear.
The Palestinians regard east Jerusalem as the capital of their
promised state and fiercely oppose any attempts to extend Israeli
control over it.
