An attacker with two knives who wounded a policeman guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade overnight has been shot dead.
Serbia's outgoing interior minister confirmed the news on Wednesday.
“One minor, of so far undetermined identity, who is reasonably suspected to be from Šabac, rushed at an officer of the Gendarmerie shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and attacked him with two knives,” Ivica Dacic said in an emailed statement.
Dacic added that he had raised Serbia's security threat level to red, the highest, and that there would be an increased police presence at key locations. The officer suffered a light head wound, Dacic said.
It is the second such attack at Belgrade's Israeli embassy in two years. In June 2024, an assailant shot a Serbian police officer with a crossbow.
The attack came a day after Israelis went to the polls, with projected results showing the opposition bloc neck and neck with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's camp.
Israel's Central Elections Committee was tallying votes on Wednesday and it will likely take until Thursday before definitive results of the election - the first since the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023 - are known.
With some 48.4% of votes tallied, Netanyahu's bloc was projected to win 55 seats, and Eisenkot's bloc 50 seats, with 15 seats going to Arab parties, Israeli media reported, a distribution will likely change as more votes are tallied.
That leaves both sides short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset, and neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot claimed victory.
Serbia's student-led movement toppled longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic in an election on Sunday, but the outgoing administration remains in place in a caretaker role until the new government is formed.
Protesters entered a Serbian television station supportive of Vucic late on Monday, interrupting broadcasting to call for the arrest of its editor, as tens of thousands took to the streets for a second night of post-election celebrations.
Serbia's Student List, born out of a student-led anti-corruption protest movement, unseated Vucic in a historic election, bringing to an end 14 years in power for a man who served as information minister under Slobodan Milosevic and who maintained tight control over the media.
Live footage broadcast by Informer TV showed around 30 people walk into its newsroom on Monday evening and surround editor-in-chief and owner Dragan Vucicevic. Some protesters shouted: "This is how it is in free Serbia" and "Where is Vucic now?" Some also called for Vucicevic's arrest.
On his personal Instagram account, Vucic, dressed in a jumper displaying the crossed-out word "sorry", called the event an attack on free speech and the freedom of journalism.
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