According to police reports on Sunday morning 10 Teves 5773, an eastern Jerusalem taxi driver tried to run over a border policeman guarding a police station complex in the Jabil Mukhaber area of the capital. B’chasdei Hashem the border policeman responded quickly and appropriately, firing at the approaching vehicle. The driver sustained a light leg injury. The border policeman was also injured in a leg and he too was described in light condition.

Police officials indicated the incident was most likely a terror attack and it appears the attacker was acting alone.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)