JERUSALEM, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian knifeman stabbed and injured two police officers in East Jerusalem's Old City early on Thursday morning before he was shot dead by Israeli forces, Israel's police said.
The officers, identified as a 19-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man Border Police fighters, were lightly injured, according to the hospitals to which they were evacuated.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the assailant, identified only as a 26-year-old man from the West Bank, first attempted to stab an Israeli civilian, who was not injured.
He then ran towards the police officers and stabbed them. "They responded at the scene and the terrorist was shot," Rosenfeld said.
Rosenfeld released a photo of a large kitchen knife and said it is the knife that the attacker used.
The violence was part of an ongoing wave of Palestinian street attacks since 2015, after the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed.
Including stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks, the violence is part of Palestinians' struggle against the Israeli occupation of the lands that Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war.
