MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Israeli police arrested three people in Jerusalem suspected of assisting a person, who had stabbed an Israeli man with a knife in the Old City in early May, to escape from the crime scene, the police said Wednesday.
"Three residents of the Old City were arrested several days ago, suspected of assisting the terrorist, who had carried out a terrorist attack near the Lions' Gate on May 2. They are being accused of helping the terrorist to escape from the scene," the police wrote on official Facebook account.
According to the law enforcement agency, these suspects provided the assailant with shelter and new clothes. The attacker himself was arrested late at night on May 2.
Israel has been facing a wave of violence since early September 2015, which has claimed lives of more than 34 Israelis and foreign citizens and injured more than 380, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
