Police officer wounded in stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

The knife of a Palestinian assailant who stabbed a Border Police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City, November 29, 2015.

Troops shot 21-year-old Yehya Taha in the head, according to Palestinian health ministry spokesman Mohammed Awawdeh, and the youth later died of his wounds in a Ramallah hospital. Forensics are working at the site.

A Border Police officer was stabbed and was lightly to moderately wounded on Sunday morning at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says Israeli forces have arrested some 2,400 Palestinians, half of them children, since the beginning of October.

But the Palestinians say the structure is a land grab, since it places sections of the West Bank on the “Israeli” side. Firstly, he exploited the recent Paris attacks which made him nearly sure that he would not be subjected to worldwide pressure.

The security cabinet has authorized the Israeli army to impose full closures on Palestinian villages in the West Bank while searching for suspected terrorists, a senior official in Jerusalem told Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday.

Israel is studying the possible scenarios that may arise should the Palestinian Authority collapse as a result of the pressures imposed by security concerns, local media is reporting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he opposes confidence-building gestures to the Palestinians until the violence subsides.

The attacks and closure of the station came with Israeli security forces struggling to halt two months of knife, gun and car-ramming assaults.

Israeli Arabs are descendants of residents who stayed put during the 1948 war of Israel’s founding, in which hundreds of thousands of fellow Palestinians fled or were forced to leave their homes.