According to police, an Israeli officer fatally shot a Palestinian woman who allegedly attempted to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday.
In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces allegedly shot dead a man who allegedly opened fire on them during clashes sparked by an overnight arrest operation, according to police.
According to a police statement, the woman attempted to stab police in one of the streets leading to the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
A reporter heard gunshots and discovered a woman’s body on the ground, later draped in a survival blanket.
Israeli police “opened fire” on the assailant, and “medical forces who arrived at the scene determined her death,” police said, adding that no one was injured in the attempted attack.
The 30-year-old deceased woman, from Qabatiya in the north of the occupied West Bank, approached officers as she was leaving the Al Aqsa compound, Islam’s third holiest site, according to police.
Israeli troops and border police were conducting an operation “to arrest suspects and locate weapons” in the village of Burqin, also in the northern West Bank near Jenin, according to a police statement.
“During the operation, an armed [male] fired at the forces operating in the village during a riot,” according to police.
“Border police forces responded with gunfire… and neutralized him,” police said, with a spokesman telling AFP that he had died.
According to the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, the man killed was a member of its military wing. According to police, no Israeli forces were injured in the incident.
In Jerusalem, Israeli security forces are stationed at each entrance to the Al Aqsa compound, also known as the Temple Mount by Jews, which is the holiest site in Judaism.
The compound is located in east Jerusalem, the Palestinian sector of the city that Israel occupied in 1967 and later annexed in a move that the international community never recognized.
Officials said five Palestinians were killed on Sunday after an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank sparked gunfights with Hamas fighters, two of whom were killed in Burqin.
