Israeli police have shot a Palestinian girl who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis. Medical groups arrived on the scene shortly after however declared the girl useless.
On Thursday, a lady exited the Temple Mount advanced (referred to as Al-Aqsa compound to Palestinians), which holds Al-Aqsa mosque, in Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis and approached the officers subsequent to the Chain Gate, pulling out a knife and making an attempt to stab them, native media reported citing police.
Israeli police then opened fireplace on the younger girl and “medical forces who arrived on the scene decided her loss of life,” police mentioned. No casualties have been reported on the Israeli aspect. AFP journalists mentioned they noticed the physique of the girl who was later lined in a survival blanket.
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— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) September 30, 2021
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— وكالة صفا (@SafaPs) September 30, 2021
Palestinian media recognized the attacker as Esra Khuzaymah, a 30-year-old resident of the city of Qabatiya close to Jenin within the West Financial institution. The Palestinian Safa Press Company mentioned the Israeli authorities had closed the doorways to the advanced following the assault.
Temple Mount is taken into account the holiest web site in Judaism, with the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits on the southern aspect of the advanced, the third holiest web site in Islam.
Earlier in September, two Israelis have been injured as an attacker stabbed locals at a retailer subsequent to the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. The assailant was shot by two feminine Border Police patrol officers. In Might, clashes on the web site have been the prelude to a short-lived battle between militant forces in Gaza and Israel.
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The compound sits in east Jerusalem, the Palestinian sector of town, which was occupied and later annexed by Israel in 1967.
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