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A knife-wielding attacker assaulted a security guard outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade before Serbian police shot and killed the assailant, according to the supplied reports.

Deutsche Welle, citing Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, reported that the attacker was a minor armed with knives. The Times of India said the assault occurred shortly after midnight. The available accounts do not provide a confirmed identity for the attacker or a fully detailed sequence of the confrontation.

Serbian authorities treated the incident as a terrorist act or suspected terrorist attack and raised the country's terror alert to its highest level. Dacic said police had killed the minor after the attack on the guard, according to Deutsche Welle. The guard's condition was not specified in the supplied reports.

Some details remain attributed to individual reports. The Times of India cited witnesses who said the attacker yelled Islamist phrases during the assault. La Repubblica reported that Serbian police viewed the incident as a planned provocation rather than a coincidence. Those claims were not independently established across the supplied accounts.

The attack also recalled an earlier incident at the same diplomatic mission. Euronews reported that, in June 2024, a man wounded a Serbian police officer outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade before being shot dead by a guard. The supplied reports place both incidents at the embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

SOURCES

  1. Times of IndiaKnife-wielding attacker shot dead outside Israeli embassy in Serbia
  2. Deutsche WelleSerbian police shoot dead assailant at Israeli Embassy
  3. La RepubblicaBelgrado, attacco all’ambasciata israeliana: ucciso l’aggressore. “Attentato terroristico”
  4. HandelsblattTerrorverdacht: Serbien: Anschlag auf Polizisten vor israelischer Botschaft
  5. EuronewsSerbian police kill attacker outside Israeli Embassy in suspected ‘terrorist attack’