Israeli police shoot dead Palestinian man after alleged assault on police officer

The Israeli forces have arrested a Palestinian man after shooting him in the city of al-Quds (Jerusalem) for an alleged stabbing attack. The suspected attackers were shot dead during the attack and the soldiers were lightly and moderately injured. Police officers spokeswoman Luba Samri stated in that on Saturday, officers had approached a human being they viewed as suspicious.

Palestinian leaders say a young generation sees no hope for the future living under Israeli security restrictions and with a stifled economy.

“But because of the ongoing violence and the threat to nearby (Israeli) communities they fired towards the main instigators”, she said.

The Palestinian Authority charges the violence is the result of almost 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip territories, home to more than five million Palestinians, and amid dim prospects of establishing a Palestinian state in these territories, in accordance with the two-state peace solution.

According to a police statement, the officers saw that the woman was accelerating directly at their position and one of them opened fire, killing her.

Israeli soldiers used live rounds, rubber bullets and teargas on hundreds of Palestinians at the protest.

Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians who had stabbed a soldier Sunday at a West Bank checkpoint, the military said.

All three Palestinians were killed during the attacks.

The people who brought the 56-year-old man to the hospital said he was shot for no reason, Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Taref Ashour said.

The incident was captured on security camera footage.

The fourth Palestinian, who died in clashes with the Israeli military in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, was hit in the head by live fire, according to Ahmad Bitawi, the director of Ramallah hospital.

Violence has also been triggered by Muslim anger over stepped-up Israeli visits to Jerusalem’s al Aqsa mosque complex.