16-year-old attacker shot dead
Israel: Policewoman killed in knife attack in Jerusalem
November 6th, 2023, 6:09 p.m
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According to Israeli reports, a young Palestinian stormed a police station in East Jerusalem and stabbed a policewoman. The 20-year-old, who has Israeli and US citizenship, succumbed to her injuries a short time later. The attacker also does not survive the attack.
According to Israeli reports, a 16-year-old Palestinian killed a police officer and injured another police officer in an attack near Jerusalem’s Old City. The man stabbed the 20-year-old policewoman with a knife in a police station, the authorities say. The attacker was shot after the knife attack. The incident therefore occurred at Herod’s Gate.
According to the Magen David Adom emergency service, the policewoman was initially taken to hospital in critical condition. There she died from her injuries, police reported. The woman therefore also had US citizenship. The attacker was identified by police as a young Palestinian from the Issawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Another suspect was arrested near the police station, it said.
Since the beginning of the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas in the Gaza Strip, violence has flared up again in East Jerusalem. On October 30, a Palestinian seriously wounded an Israeli police officer there with a knife. The attacker was shot.
Israel has recently stepped up its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. It is reacting to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th, in which, according to Israeli information, 1,400 people, most of them civilians, were killed and 240 others were kidnapped as hostages.
Israel has since been bombing the Gaza Strip and has begun a ground offensive. According to information from the Hamas-run health ministry in the Palestinian enclave, which cannot be independently verified, the Israeli attacks have so far killed 10,022 people, around two thirds of them women and children.