Israeli rescue workers carry a dead body at the scene following an incident inside Jerusalem’s Old city March 7, 2022 REUTERS/Ammar Awad
March 7, 2022
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man after he stabbed two officers at a gate to Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Monday, a police statement said, in the second such incident in two days.
Police said the two officers suffered light to moderate wounds and were taken to hospital.
Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, praised the stabbing attack as a response to Israel’s “extrajudicial killings” of Palestinians in Jerusalem, though it did not claim the attacker as a member of the group.
“These operations will continue as long as the occupation continues its aggression and its violations against the sacred sites in Jerusalem,” Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said.
A video on social media showed several police officers yelling and pointing their guns at the man as he lay on the ground at the Cotton Merchants’ Gate.
Photos distributed by police showed a bloodied knife on the ground.
The state-run Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the man as Abdulrahman Qasem from Jalazon refugee camp near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
On Sunday, a Palestinian man who stabbed and wounded an Israeli policeman in the Old City was killed after officers fired at him, police said.
Later that day, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian who threw a fire bomb at an army post outside Jerusalem, a military spokesman said. Palestinian officials identified him as a 16-year-old who later died of his wounds.
Israel captured East Jerusalem and the Old City, along with the West Bank and Gaza in a 1967 war. Palestinians seek those areas for a future state. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014.
(Reporting by Henriette Chacar in Jerusalem; Additional reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Jeffrey Heller, Bill Berkrot and Andrew Heavens)
Source: One America News Network
