Border Police officer stabbed in Nahariya
A 37-year-old Border Police officer from Fassuta, an Arab town in northern Israel, was stabbed in Nahariya on Friday evening. The attacker was caught and arrested after a brief search and the motive for the event is under investigaton.
A Border Police officer was stabbed and moderately wounded in Nahariya on Friday evening in an attack outside the city's central bus station. The motives behind the attack are under investigation.
Just after 6:30pm, an assailant stabbed a 37-year-old Border Police officer in the upper part of his body close to the central bus station in Nahariya. The officer was moderately wounded and treated at the scene before being taken to hospital with several stab wounds to his upper body. The attacker fled the scene, reportedly in a car in the direction of a village in the area.
Checkpoints were set up on roads in east Nahariya and the attacker, a 16-year-old from the Galilee, was arrested around two hours later.
The Border Police officer, a Christian from the Arab town of Fassuta, told police that he had been on his way to his home in the north from his base in Jerusalem and claimed that it was a nationalistic attack.
A witness to the attack said: "I saw a young man in uniform struggling with another youngster, who looked like a teenager, at the entrance to the bus station. The teenager had a knife and the man in the uniform hit him. Then the teenager fled."
