Israel Embassy Employee’s Attacked in China

Beijing: An Israeli embassy worker in Beijing was attacked on Friday, Israel’s foreign ministry said.
Video geolocated by AFP shows the man was stabbed with a knife on a street in the Chinese capital. “An Israeli
employee of the Israeli embassy in Beijing was attacked today,” a foreign ministry statement said, adding that the
attack did not take place at the embassy compound. “The employee is beingtreated at hospital and is in stable condition,” the statement said. “The motive for the assault is being lookedinto.” US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said he was “shocked”by the attack, offering his “full support” to the Israeli embassy and community in China. “We are shocked by today’s attack on an Israeli diplomat in Beijing,” Burns said in a post on the social media
platform X, formerly Twitter, addinghe had spoken with Israel’s ambassador to China Irit Ben-Abba. A video posted
on social media and geolocated by AFP to an area around a kilometre and a half (roughly 1 mile) from the embassy shows a man brandishing a knife repeatedly stabbing another man, with blood visible on the pavement. The man
with the blade can later be seen leaving the site, weapon in hand.In another video of the same location, security staff
are seen questioning people and making phone calls. A man then rushes in on abike to where the blood-soaked and conscious victim is sitting, shouting”ambulance!” to onlookers. The victim is seen being carried away by several others, likely for medical treatment, toa vehicle out of frame. During the video,a policeman can be heard saying he isfrom Xinyuanli police station.A person who answered the phone at that station told AFP they were “not clear” aboutthe details of the case and referred ajournalist to higher-level authorities.An AFP journalist at the scene
where the stabbing occurred said therewere eight plainclothes police officerspresent. Three shopkeepers at storesdirectly in front of the attack’s locationsaid they did not see anything takeplace. The stabbing comes after Hamasgunmen killed more than 1,200 peoplein Israel, mostly civilians, and tookabout 150 hostages in their surprise