In the first attack Tuesday, police said two Palestinian relatives, believed to be about 12 and 13 years old, stabbed a security guard on a train in east Jerusalem. The security guard is hospitalized. The guard shot one assailant and passengers subdued the second one.
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In the video, which is likely to raise further controversy, police officers show Ahmed footage of him and his cousin wielding knives and chasing a man through the streets of the Pisgat Zeev settlement.
Twelve Israelis were allegedly killed in lone wolf attacks by Palestinians in the form of stabbing, shooting and vehicular runovers since the beginning of October.
It sparked a propaganda skirmish, with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas claiming he had been “executed” while Israel scrambled to release video of him sitting up and eating in a Jerusalem hospital bed.
Since mid-September, 12 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings. The younger of the boys, both from Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp, was shot and seriously wounded and the other was arrested.
The officers in the video then accuse the child of stabbing an Israeli and “aiding the enemy” during the “war” – an apparent reference to a weeks-long spate of violence that a few are calling a new Palestinian “intifada” (“popular uprising”) against Israel’s decades-long occupation. “You can not terrify or threaten or tempt for the goal of achieving a confession”, she said. Increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the compound – which is Islam’s holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples – have led to Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “status quo” under which Jewish prayer there is banned. The other Palestinians were killed in clashes between stone throwers and security forces.
That guard used his weapon to shoot and, thus, “neutralized the terrorist”, the police said via Twitter. The guards shot at him and paramedics pronounced his death at the scene, the spokesman said.
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Police spokesperson Luba Samri denied the allegations, saying the questioning was carried out “in a professional manner”.
