‘Heroic’ Israeli Police Officer Dies Preventing Major Terror Attack in Jerusalem

An Israeli border police officer died of injuries she sustained in an attack on Wednesday outside the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli authorities said.

The assailants who have been killed have either been shot dead by their victims or security forces as they carried out attacks.

The three Palestinians were challenged by the border guards, who asked to see their identification cards, Israeli police said.

The violence has killed 25 Israelis, as well as an American and an Eritrean, according to an AFP count.

In May previous year Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Administration had the right to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank’s Area C because ‘they were built without permission.’ However residents have argued that they have had no choice because the Israeli government consistently refuses to give them building permits.

The Middle East country said the violence has been fuelled by a Palestinian “campaign of lies and incitement”.

The five youth were all evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment, Zakarneh said.

The sentencing came amid a wave of Palestinian stabbings, shootings and car-rammings that erupted in October, including an attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday that killed a policewoman.

The killers admitted after their arrest a few days later that his murder was an act of revenge following the funerals of three Jewish teenagers who had been kidnapped and killed while hitchhiking in the occupied territories a month earlier.

Police named the dead female officer as 19-year-old Hadar Cohen. Other Israeli security forces in the scene killed the three assailants and subsequently shot.

The attack occurred when border police approached the Palestinians for identity checks, Israeli authorities said.

Some analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israeli occupation, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the unrest.

A spokesperson for the hospital said that the other police officer, 18 years old, was in moderate condition, having received stab wounds across her body.

Security officials who were on patrol demanded that they stop for a search after three people aroused their suspicion near the Damascus Gate of the Old City.

As there have been multiple witnesses at the attack it is clear that the terrorists were not alleged.

A high-profile court case involving events that led to the Gaza war in 2014 has concluded in Israel; but not without controversy.

The court’s actions are being closely watched at a time of renewed Israeli-Palestinian tensions.