Border Policeman who eliminated Old City terrorist recounts horrifying attack.

One of the Border Policeman who eliminated a terrorist during a stabbing in Jerusalem Sunday spoke to the press in the hours after the event.

'We were on routine patrol when suddenly he [the terrorist - ed.] pulled out a knife," the policeman, who wished to remain anonymous, stated to Channel 2. "The terrorist attacked my partner and stabbed him in the neck. He shouted Allahu Akhbar."

"Immediately, I took a step back, cocked my weapon, and shot him." 

Police added that the investigation is continuing and that responses like this - acting with vigilance and rapidity - are what is needed against terror.

"We prevented a much larger incident, if he would have been able to bypass the police and reach civilians," a police representative noted. 

On Sunday, the terrorist - named as 38 year-old Shechem (Nablus) resident Basim Salah - stabbed the officer in Jerusalem's Old City, on Hagai Street, near Damascus Gate. 

The site has been a flashpoint for terrorism in recent weeks and is very close to the exact site where Israelis Aharon Banita-Bennett and Rabbi Nehemia Lavi were murdered last month.