On February 3, after attempts to save her life at a hospital failed, 19-year-old Border Patrol officer Hadar Cohen from Or Yehuda succumbed to her injuries that she received during a shooting and stabbing attack that occurred near Jerusalem’s Old City on February 3. A photo from the scene shared by police showed two kitchen knives on the ground beside a calculator, pens and other school supplies.
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On Thursday, the Israeli military sealed of the home village of the three Palestinian men who staged a deadly attack in Jerusalem and conducted raids in the settlement.
AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images An Israeli munitions specialist carries a box suspected to contain an explosive device at the site where reported Palestinian assailants were killed following an attack.
However, because the attacks have been largely carried out by young individuals, influenced by social media but without links to militant groups, the army has been reluctant to carry out measures that will impact the general Palestinian population. After approaching them and asking for identification, one of the men pulled out an automatic rifle and started shooting, Samri said.
The three Palestinians were all from the northern West Bank- two from Qabatiya, the third from Jenin- and 20 or 21-years-old.
Another female police officer was stabbed.
The court sentenced a second Israeli, believed to have had a lesser role in the crime, to 21 years in prison.
In Thursday’s incident at the central bus station in Ramle, a Jewish-Arab town, the girls drew knives and attacked a guard who challenged them after they set off a metal detector, police said. The guard was taken to hospital, medics said. According to 2014 figures of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) approximately 300000 Palestinians live in Area C and only about 1 percent of Area C has been planned for Palestinian development.
Israeli forces then invaded Qabatiya, raiding dozens of houses and arresting at least 12 Palestinians.
Abu Khdeir’s killing was part of a spiral of violence that led to a 50-day war in the Gaza Strip in summer 2014.
The attack happened at the Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City.
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Over recent years, the European Union has built more than 200 structures in Area C, the radio claimed, territory which, according to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993 between the Israeli and the Palestinians, falls under full Israeli civil and security control.
