An Israeli Jew was stabbed and seriously injured near the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem this afternoon. The victim, identified as Ovadia Baruchi, 60, a resident of the Bukharan Quarter in Jerusalem, underwent emergency surgery.
The assailant was reported to have been a young Arab, about 20 years of age, who had been seen fleeing from the scene. Police rounded up about a dozen suspects for questioning, but the attacker was apparently not among them.
Baruchi was reported to have been shopping near the scene of the attack. The capital’s police chief, Superintendent Haim Albaldess, noted that the Damascus Gate area was a busy commercial center where Jewish shoppers and Arab shopkeepers had generally conducted their business peaceably.
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