A female attacker carried out a stabbing near Israeli police headquarters in Jerusalem on Monday and was "neutralised" by security forces, police said, without specifying whether she had been killed or captured.

Details of the stabbing were not immediately clear. It was the second knife attack of the day and the 17th since October 3, most committed by young Palestinians against Israelis. Two Israelis have been killed in the wave of stabbings and around 20 wounded.