JERUSALEM: Four people, including an Israeli soldier, were stabbed and wounded near a military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, police and ambulance sources said, as a rash of such Palestinian attacks spread to Israel’s commercial capital.

The assailant was shot and killed by another soldier as he fled, a police spokeswoman said. The spate of “lone-wolf” stabbing attacks has alarmed authorities and unsettled Israelis, with Jerusalem’s mayor urging people with gun licences to carry their weapons and Israeli leaders vowing to quash the violence though apparently stumped over how to do so.

Shortly after the Tel Aviv attack, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a man in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank, an ambulance service official said. Hours earlier, a Jewish seminary student was wounded in a Palestinian knife attack on a main road in Jerusalem. Police said the assailant was arrested at the scene.