Palestinian teen wounds two Israelis in 'Jerusalem attack'

A Palestinian teenager wielding a meat cleaver seriously wounded an Israeli man and lightly wounded a teenager on Wednesday outside Jerusalem's occupied Old City, before being arrested, Israeli police said.

"A suspect stabbed a civilian... at the Jaffa Gate promenade in Jerusalem," police said. They released a picture of a blood-stained cleaver allegedly used in the attack.

"The suspect involved in the incident was pursued and apprehended by Jerusalem district police officers," the police said in a statement.

The suspect was later identified by police as "a 17-year-old from east Jerusalem", a Palestinian area occupied and annexed by Israel in violation of international law.

The Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom said it treated a man with stab wounds who was in a "serious but stable condition".

Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem said it received a 56-year-old man with stab wounds to his face, neck and arms, and were assessing his condition.

Medics later said "a 17-year-old boy identified as a tourist" was treated and taken to hospital "with a minor superficial stab wound to his stomach".

Dimiter Tzantchev, the European Union's ambassador to Israel, expressed concerns over the attack.

"The current wave of violence is very worrying and has to stop!" he wrote on X, formally known as Twitter. "The EU condemns terrorism in all forms."

At least 226 Palestinians having been killed so far this year as Israel carries out near daily deadly raids in the West Bank and steps up illegal settlement activity.

32 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian have also been killed over the same period, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.