Israeli police shoot, kill Palestinian after stab attack leaves 2 lightly injured
Dec. 14, 2016 1:16 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 14, 2016 3:51 P.M.)
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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian after he carried out a stabbing attack that one Israeli officer and one Israeli civilian minor lightly injured in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem early on Wednesday afternoon.
According to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri, a suspect approached a group of Israeli police forces deployed near the Austrian Hospice hospital in the Old City, took out a screwdriver and stabbed one of the officers in the head, lightly injuring him.
Israeli forces shot the alleged attacker, “neutralizing” him, al-Samri said, later adding that the youth, whom she identified as a 21-year-old resident of the occupied West Bank village of Beit Surik in the Jerusalem district, had been taken to the Hadassah hospital in “critical condition.”
Israeli forces regularly use the term “neutralize” to indicate that a Palestinian has either been killed or wounded by Israeli forces.
A spokesperson for Hadassah hospital told Ma’an that the Palestinian succumbed to gunshot wounds at around 2:30 p.m. in the hospital.
She added that a 14-year-old had also been admitted with light wounds in connection with the incident. However, it was not clear from Israeli reports if the youth’s injuries were sustained directly from the suspect.
Witnesses said that the Palestinian was left on the ground bleeding for 20 minutes, adding that a Palestinian doctor arrived on the scene but was pushed away by Israeli forces before they finally let him administer first aid to the wounded Palestinian until Israeli ambulances arrived at the scene.
A video shared by al-Quds news agency showed the doctor being initially pushed away by Israeli forces.
اعتداء جنود الاحتلال على طبيب حاول إسعاف منفذ عملية الطعن في البلدة القديمة بالقدس المحتلة قبل قليل. ▻https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/809009148142768128/video/1
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) 14 d cembre 2016