Serbian officer kills minor attacker at Israeli embassy in Belgrade

A Serbian police officer shot and killed a minor who attacked him with two knives outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade early Wednesday.

• Serbian police said the officer killed the attacker in self-defense and suffered minor facial knife wounds.
• Interior Minister Ivica Dačić described the incident as a terrorist attack and raised the terror alert to its highest level.
• Dačić said security forces had monitored the unnamed attacker, believed to be from Šabac, who was known to support the Islamic State.
• The same embassy was targeted in June 2024, when police killed an assailant who wounded a guard with a crossbow.
• Israel's foreign ministry confirmed the attack as an attempted terrorist act and said no embassy staff were harmed in the incident.
• Interior Minister Dacic said the attacker shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during the knife assault on the officer outside the embassy.
• Dacic said the attacker had shared an Islamic State flag on his Instagram account before Wednesday's attack.