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| Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed 'by ultra-Orthodox Jew' | Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed 'by ultra-Orthodox Jew' |
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| Police have arrested a man after six people were wounded in a stabbing at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem. | Police have arrested a man after six people were wounded in a stabbing at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem. |
| A police spokesperson told the BBC that the suspect was the same man who stabbed three people at the parade in 2005. | |
| Yishai Schlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for that attack and was released from prison three weeks ago. | Yishai Schlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for that attack and was released from prison three weeks ago. |
| Two of the injured are in a serious condition, the ambulance service said. | Two of the injured are in a serious condition, the ambulance service said. |
| Eyewitnesses told Israel's Haaretz newspaper that the attacker emerged behind marchers and began stabbing them while screaming, before being tackled by a police officer. | |
| The march has long been a source of tension between Jerusalem's secular majority and its Jewish Orthodox communities. | The march has long been a source of tension between Jerusalem's secular majority and its Jewish Orthodox communities. |
| Hundreds of police are deployed along the route to try to prevent violence breaking out. | |
| Ultra-Orthodox Jews have previously gathered in the city's Mea Shearim quarter to protest against homosexuality. |