A 60-year-old Palestinian woman was injured by Israeli forces after she tried to stab a security guard at a light rail station near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on Sunday, Palestinian media reported. She was arrested shortly afterwards.
According to Haaretz, the woman put her hand into her bag when the security guard instructed her to remove it. She pulled out a knife and the guard shot her in the leg.
The woman has received medical treatment and is in stable condition.
The attack comes at a time of heightened tension between Israel and the Palestinians with military attacks in the West Bank and several deadly terror attacks over the past year and a half.
Since July 3, Israeli forces have killed 18 Palestinians in one of the most deadly weeks in the West Bank for months.
This year, over 190 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including 33 children, at a rate of more than one fatality per day.
