One stabbing and two attempted attacks took place in Jerusalem on Tuesday, one by two young boys.
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Leaked video of an interrogation posted by Palestinian media purportedly shows him in tears as an Israeli officer shouts and shakes his fist at him while making him watch CCTV footage of the attack. A few minutes later, two security guards shot a 37-year-old Palestinian holding a knife as he ran towards them, Samri said.
“Passengers on the train took control of the second attacker until the rapid arrival of police”, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told the paper. The wounded boy was being treated at a hospital.
The Israeli army and Shin Bet have conducted a number of arrest operations since the latest wave of violence and terror began in October, in particular against Hamas militants who have tried to use the latest escalation to rebuild the organization’s base in the West Bank. Palestinians have said the attacks stem from a lack of hope for gaining independence after years of failed peace efforts.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, more than 80 Palestinians have died, a few in clashes with security forces during protests, while others gunned down by security forces and vigilante citizens after allegedly trying to carry out attacks against Israelis.
While other knife and car-ramming assaults have continued in the occupied West Bank amid a weeks-long surge of violence, Tuesday’s attacks were the first in Jerusalem in more than a week.
Israel has blamed the violence on incitement by Palestinian political and religious leaders.
Israeli police said forces foiled an additional attack in Abu Dis, an Arab neighbourhood in east Jerusalem.
Initial reports suggested he may have been a 50-year-old Palestinian man who was hit by Israeli crossfire, although a spokesperson for Shaare Zedek Medical Center said they received an Israeli civilian who was lightly injured near Damascus gate.
The Ministry said that 1,248 Palestinians had been shot with live rounds since the beginning of the unrest in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The detainees, who were not named, were apprehended in a joint operation with the Israel Police and Israel Defense Forces, and “included “senior Hamas officials, a few of whom have been jailed in the past, a few a couple of times, for their Hamas activity, including military activity”, the security agency said”. The army deployed hundreds of troops in the city and police erected checkpoints at the entrances to Palestinian neighborhoods.
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Palestinian sources identified the lady as 23-year-old Rasha Mohamed Ewissi. The Israelis, aged 20 and 13, survived their wounds.
