Palestinian boy, 12, shot and 13-year-old arrested after stabbing Isreali security guard at Jerusalem train station

One Palestinian boy was shot and another was subdued by a mob of train passengers after one of them stabbed an Israeli security guard at a light rail station in Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon, according to officials.
The young assailants’ attack happened minutes before a second stabbing in another section of the Israeli city, continuing a recent uptick in violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

The boys, ages 12 and 13, who the Times of Israel says are cousins, moderately wounded the Israeli guard after stabbing him in the chest at a train station in East Jerusalem.
The stabbed guard shot and injured the younger boy following the attack and a crowd of train passengers who witnessed the attack apprehended the second boy until police arrived to arrest the suspects, according to BBC.
“The swift and determined response by the light rail guard and the passengers prevented the injury of other innocent people,” said Avi Cohen, the captain of the nearby police station told the Times of Israel.

The 25-year-old guard suffered minor stab wounds to his upper body and was rushed from the scene in a stretcher to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, according to Haaretz.
The stabbing happened just minutes before a 37-year-old Palestinian man was shot and killed after police say he pulled a knife on them.
The two incidents follow two months of turmoil in the region which left 12 Israelis and 75 Palestinians dead.