Palestinian shot after stabbing Jerusalem security guard: Israel police

A Palestinian man stabbed a security guard on Thursday at a light rail station in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem before being shot and wounded at the site, police said.

"A 19-year-old resident of East Jerusalem" carried out a "stabbing attack" at Givat Hamivtar light rail station in northern Jerusalem, Israeli police said in a statement.

It said the unnamed assailant "was apprehended by the police and is receiving medical treatment after being neutralised by gunfire seconds after the attack by two light rail security guards".

Police added, citing medical sources, that the Palestinian "sustained serious injuries".

Hadassah hospital said it was treating the guard for stab wounds to his hand.

Earlier on Thursday, police said a guard at an Israeli checkpoint north of Jerusalem was lightly wounded in a car ramming.

The suspected assailant, a 38-year-old Palestinian resident of the occupied West Bank, hit the guard at Qalandiya checkpoint with his car before being apprehended by other guards, according to police.

It comes amid heightened Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank so far this year.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) earlier this month said Israeli forces had killed 178 Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel since the start of the year.

"This already exceeds the death toll by Israeli forces in the West Bank of any whole year since 2005," OCHA said.