Palestinian killed after attempting to stab Israeli policeman

Eyewitnesses refuted the military allegations.

Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said in a statement that the Palestinian man pulled a knife on the officer in Allenby Square, located around a mile east from Jerusalem’s Old City.

The two were identified as Nour-Adin Saba’aneh, 23, and Mohammed Rafeeq Saba’aneh, 17; Both are from Qabatia town near Jenin in northern West Bank. A third settler was killed when Israeli occupation forces opened fire at the Palestinians.

The Israeli rescue service said it took two soldiers to hospital, one moderately wounded and one lightly, but it did not describe their injuries.

Israel’s army says its forces have shot dead two Palestinians who allegedly stabbed and wounded a soldier in the West Bank. “He was swiftly shot and neutralised”, she said.

Palestinians have killed allegedly 20 Israelis and a United States citizen in the same period, raising fears of a wider escalation, a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided. ‘Police officers spotted a man who aroused their suspicions and approached him to check, ‘ a police spokeswoman said.

Naimi was shot and critically injured following the incident south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

After Hammad’s funeral on Saturday brief clashes broke out between Israeli security forces and Palestinians, with tear gas used to disperse the crowds.

The incident was captured on security camera footage.

A wave of violence since the start of October has claimed the lives of 135 people on the Palestinian side, 19 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.

Tensions have dramatically escalated since the Israeli regime’s imposition of restrictions in August on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The site, Islam’s holiest outside Saudi Arabia, is also revered by many Jews as a vestige of their biblical temples. Israel says 88 of them were attacking or attempting to attack Israelis while the rest died in clashes with Israeli troops.