Jerusalem: A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem’s main bus station on Sunday, while violence flared near the US Embassy in Beirut over President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Four days of street protests in the Palestinian territories over Trump’s announcement on Wednesday largely died down, but his overturning of long-standing US policy on Jerusalem – a city holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians – drew more Arab warnings of potential damage to prospects for Middle East peace.
But in Jerusalem, a security guard was in critical condition after a 24-year-old Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank stabbed him after approaching a metal detector at an entrance to the city’s central bus station, police said.
The alleged assailant was taken into custody after a passer-by tackled him.
Read the full article by Jeffrey Heller at the Sydney Morning Herald.