Wire reporting: (Reuters, via Al-Monitor), (AP, via KSAT)

Serbian police shot and killed a knife-wielding attacker outside Israel's embassy in Belgrade in the early hours of Wednesday, Oct. 28, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said, after the assailant wounded a gendarmerie officer guarding the mission^1,6,8.

Dacic said the attacker, described as a minor and a Serbian citizen whose identity had not been confirmed, rushed the officer with two knives while shouting an Arabic religious phrase^1,3,6. Meduza, citing the minister, put the time at 12:15 a.m.³. The officer suffered a minor wound to the face and did not need hospital care, according to Dacic^1,6.

Belgrade's Higher Public Prosecution Office, as reported by SCMP, said a person in black opened the door of a guard booth, threw one knife that hit officer D.S. in the left cheek, then was shot several times and died at the scene⁸. Dacic said the shooting was in self-defense^6,8.

Dacic said Serbian security services had been monitoring the attacker as a supporter of Islamic State and that the person had displayed an Islamic State flag on Instagram^1,6,8. He said the attacker was thought to be from Sabac, in western Serbia^6,8. Police were treating the case as a terrorist attack and raised the national terrorism threat to red, the highest level, with tighter checks and more officers at infrastructure and crowded sites^1,3,6.

Israel's foreign ministry said it was an attempted terrorist attack, that no embassy personnel were injured, and that the mission was closed at the time^1,6,8.

Outlets noted a previous attack at the same embassy in June 2024, when an assailant wounded a police officer with a crossbow and was shot dead^1,6,8. The latest incident came a day after Israel's parliamentary election and days after Serbia's early vote, with the outgoing interior minister still in a caretaker role^6,8. The attacker's identity had not been publicly confirmed^1,4.