Two Israeli border guards were wounded in a knife attack in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, police said.

Israeli emergency services said they treated a seriously injured Israeli soldier, aged 20, and another lightly injured person, also aged 20.

According to The Times of Israel, citing the Israeli police, the attacker was Palestinian and armed with a knife, he attacked police officers, seriously injuring one of them. Afterwards, the police officers responded with the result that “the terrorists were neutralized”, the same source reports.

Alongside, Police say another suspect was arrested at the scene. “His relationship with the assailant and the attack is being investigated,” police say.

The perpetrator of the attack is identified by the police as a 16-year-old resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.

The area of ​​the attack remains cordoned off and Israel Police Chief Yaakov Shabtai has gone to the scene.

On October 12, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem had opened fire in the same place, injuring two soldiers, before killing himself.

Also on October 30, an East Jerusalem Palestinian was killed after stabbing and wounding an Israeli police officer near a gas station in the same area.

Since the beginning of the war, which erupted on October 7 with a deadly attack launched by Hamas in Israel, tension has risen in East Jerusalem and the Old City, which has been deserted by tourists.

In the occupied West Bank, at least 150 Palestinians have been killed by soldiers or Israeli settlers, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.