Undercover Border Police officers on Tuesday night shot and neutralized a man in the Silwan neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem who had been hurling stones at passing vehicles.
The assailant was evacuated to hospital for medical treatment, according to police.
Silwan or Siloam is a predominantly Arab district in the Israeli capital, located on the southeastern outskirts of the Old City.
It was reported last month that the Israel Defense Forces is building a security fence around a new road that bypasses the central Samaria terrorist hotspot of Huwara in response to the repeated stoning attacks.
Two Israeli men sustained minor head wounds in a Palestinian stone-throwing attack outside near Eitam Farm in the Gush Etzion region of Judea in October.
