10/11/2014 18:55
Israel: Palestinian held as Israeli soldier stabbed
An Israeli soldier has been stabbed and critically wounded in what police said was a "terror attack" in Tel Aviv, the BBC reported.
A Palestinian suspect from the West Bank city of Nablus has been arrested.
It comes at a time of heightened tension between Israel and the Palestinians.
At the weekend, Israeli Arabs threw stones at police in mainly Arab towns in Israel after police shot dead a young Arab man, who had attacked them with a knife.
Last week a Palestinian militant killed a policeman and a Jewish teenager after ramming his van into pedestrians at a tram stop in Jerusalem.
A similar car attack by a Palestinian in the same area two weeks earlier killed a woman and a baby.
Israeli media reported that the stabbing on Monday took place at a busy train station.
On Saturday, Israeli police said they were investigating the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Israeli Arab Khair al-din Hamdan, after video emerged showing an officer opening fire as Mr Hamdan walked away.
In the wake of the incident, in the northern town of Kfar Kana, Arabs held a general strike in towns and villages across Israel and there were clashes between police and Israeli Arab protesters.