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JERUSALEM: Israeli police fatally shot a Palestinian woman who allegedly tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said. And in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead a male who purportedly opened fire on them during clashes prompted by an overnight arrest operation, police said.
According to a police statement, the woman in Jerusalem tried to stab police in one of the streets leading to Al Aqsa mosque.
Israeli police “opened fire” at the assailant and “medical forces who arrived at the scene determined her death,” police said, adding that the attempted attack did not result in any casualties.
The 30-year-old deceased woman, from Qabatiya in the north of the occupied West Bank, was leaving the Al Aqsa compound, Islam’s third holiest site, when she approached officers, police claimed.
In the village of Burqin, also in the northern West Bank near Jenin, Israeli troops and border police were conducting an operation “to arrest suspects and locate weapons,” a police statement said.
“During the operation an armed male fired at the forces who were operating in the village during a riot,” police said. “Border police forces responded with gunfire and neutralized him,” police said.
