A police officer was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, authorities said Tuesday. The assailant, a Turkish national, was shot dead.

According to police, the 34-year-old Turkish man, apparently a tourist, rushed at a Border Police cop near the Herod’s Gate entrance and stabbed him in the upper body.

The wounded man was taken by the Magen David Adom ambulance service to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the capital, which said he was conscious and in moderate condition.

The officer who was stabbed and another cop in the area returned fire at the assailant, killing him, police added.

It is extremely rare for a foreign national to carry out an attack in Israel, with no such incidents taking place in recent memory.

A large number of forces, including police’s Jerusalem District chief Doron Turgeman, were at the scene holding an assessment and collecting evidence, law enforcement officials said.

The attack comes a week after three people were lightly wounded in a car-ramming terror attack at two separate locations in Jerusalem. The two alleged perpetrators, Palestinian teenagers, were captured after a brief manhunt.

Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have soared since October 7, when terrorists burst through the Gaza border into Israel in a Hamas-led attack, killing at least 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages.