Tel Aviv has emerged as one of the world's most gay-friendly travel destinations recently, in sharp contrast to most of the rest of the Middle East, where gays are persecuted or even killed. Jerusalem's annual parade is smaller and more restrained than the annual gay pride march in Tel Aviv, which was attended by some 100,000 revelers last month. The parade continued after the wounded were taken to a hospital, with protesters chanting "end the violence." Jerusalem police spokesman Asi Ahroni said there was a "massive presence" of police securing the parade but "unfortunately the man managed to pull out a knife and attack."
Media reported he hid in a nearby supermarket and jumped out to attack the march when it passed. Thursday's attacker carried out a similar attack that wounded several people at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem a decade ago. There was immense panic and shock," he said.
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Witnesses told Channel 2 TV that an Ultra-Orthodox man rushed the marchers and stabbed multiple people before Israeli police jumped on him and arrested him. Eli Bin of Israel's emergency service said six young people were wounded in the attack, two of them seriously. Samri said the attacker, Yishai Schlissel, was arrested. The man had recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for stabbing several people at a gay pride parade in 2005, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.