Two Palestinian girls stabbed a man at Jerusalem market. One shot dead
Daash had reportedly arrived at the Route 443 gas station with the intent to carry out a stabbing attack.
Palestinian gunmen Monday night opened fire at Israeli security personnel at a military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The first attack saw a Palestinian woman, who tried to stab an Israeli man, run over by a Jewish settler before being shot dead by soldiers.
During the past two months, 83 Palestinians have been killed, a few while carrying out attacks and others in clashes with Israeli forces, while 19 Israelis and an American student have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicle rammings.
“The continuation of the Israeli occupation and its persistence with colonial settlement activities … affirm Israel’s arrogance and intransigence, its violations of global law, its rejection of peace and its adherence instead to the ideology of colonial expansion, subjugation and greed”, Mansour told a special meeting ahead of the worldwide Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, marked annually on November 29. Of them, 57 are said by Israel to be attackers and the rest were killed in clashes with security forces. Four were wounded before police shot and killed one of the women and the second moderately injured. Following an hourslong manhunt, police found the 18-year-old hiding in the yard of a nearby home. The site, referred to as the Noble Sanctuary by Muslims and the Temple Mount by Jews, has been a constant flash point in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The attack in Jerusalem occurred on Jaffa Road, a busy street near the city centre’s market. Two Palestinian teenage girls stabbed a 70-year-old Palestinian man, apparently mistaken for an Israeli, with scissors out…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that more than 90 Palestinians have been killed.
Israel says the current spate of violence is due to a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement surrounding the sensitive holy site.
Two male victims, aged 27 and 80, were taken to hospital with light injuries, Israel’s medical service said.
According to Israel’s Channel 2 News, the Palestinian assailant, named Ahmad Daash of the West Bank village of Ketana, was shot and killed by IDF soldiers in the area.
One of the alleged attackers, a 16-year-old, was shot dead while the other, 14, was injured.
Indeed, as with the coverage of the war with Hamas in the summer of 2014, this article repeats cumulative casualty figures from the last two months of terrorism in which the higher number of slain Palestinian terrorists is compared to the total of Israelis stabbed, shot, or firebombed.