Israeli Diplomat Stabbed In China, Condition Stable

In a suspected terrorist attack, an Israeli diplomat in China was stabbed on Friday, according to The Times Of Israel.

The victim worked at Israel's embassy in Beijing and he was not close to the embassy when he was attacked. The diplomat was rushed to a hospital and his condition is said to be stable.

The Israel Foreign Ministry in a statement said, "The employee was transferred to hospital and he is in a stable condition," the statement said, without giving additional details. It added that Israeli officials were still trying to assess the "background" of what happened in the assault.

Beijing did not immediately acknowledge the assault. It wasn't immediately clear what sparked the attack, though it comes after Israel had criticised China for its statement that followed Hamas' unprecedented attack last Saturday that sparked the ongoing war between the militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Israel.

Israelis and Jews across the globe have been advised to be on alert Friday as Hamas called for a "day of rage" on Friday.

In an operation coined 'the Al-Aqsa Storm,' Hamas, whose formal name is the Islamic Resistance Movement, fired thousands of rockets into Israel on Saturday.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has entered the seventh day on Friday.

Meanwhile, Israel's military told some 1 million Palestinians living in Gaza on Friday to evacuate the north, according to the United Nations, an unprecedented order for almost half the population of the sealed-off territory ahead of an expected ground invasion against the ruling Hamas militant group.

The UN warned that so many people fleeing en masse would be calamitous, and Hamas, which staged a shocking and brutal attack on Israel this week, dismissed it as a ploy and called on people to stay in their homes, adding to widespread panic, according to a PTI report.