Palestinian stabs Israeli officer, is shot

A Palestinian man stabbed and lightly wounded a border policeman in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on Tuesday before being shot and wounded himself, Israeli police have said, according to agency reports.

The attack came during Donald Trump’s visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank. There is no suggestion that the attack was linked to the visit.

Police said that the attacker was in his mid-forties and from the nearby city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.