ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/STABBING-CLASHES Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem, police say

Record ID: 134694

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/STABBING-CLASHES Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem, police say
  • Date: 8th October 2015
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 8, 2015) (REUTERS) ISRAELI POLICE AT STABBING ATTACK SCENE BLOOD ON GROUND AT STABBING SCENE ISRAELI SECURITY CLOSING SCENE ISRAELI POLICE SPOKESMAN, MICKY ROSENFELD, TALKING TO JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI POLICE SPOKESMAN, MICKY ROSENFELD, SAYING: "Israeli police responded to yet again another attack here in Jerusalem on the light railway.
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2015 13:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA4YQ6JY67XIX1OYEBF8DW9MU5R
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a Jewish seminary student on a main road in Jerusalem on Thursday (October 8) and the assailant was arrested at the scene, police said.
    Israeli police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, told reporters from the stabbing scene that heightened security continues in and around Jerusalem.
    "Israeli police responded to yet again another attack here in Jerusalem on the light railway. A 15-year- old terrorist stabbed a 25-year-old Israeli man who is injured seriously and taken to a nearby hospital. Our police units that were in and around the area responded quickly and the terrorist was apprehended. The terrorist himself tried to grab a pistol from a private security guard, but he was prevented in time. Heightened security continues in and around Jerusalem at the moment." said Rosenfeld.
    Hours earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu banned Israeli cabinet ministers and legislators from visiting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site where rising tensions have spilled over into a wave of Palestinian attacks.
    Four Israelis have been killed in stabbings in Jerusalem and a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank in the past week, and two Palestinians have been shot dead and scores injured in clashes with security services, triggering fears of escalation. Three other Palestinian suspected assailants were also shot dead by police.
    After a right-wing outcry, Netanyahu's office clarified that the ban on politicians' visits to al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's walled Old City would also include Arab parliamentarians. It said in a statement that the move was aimed at "cooling things down around the Temple Mount".
    Palestinians fear visits by Jewish groups, including ultranationalist lawmakers, to the plaza revered in Judaism as the site of two destroyed biblical temples are eroding Muslim religious control of al-Aqsa, Islam's third holiest shrine.
    As prime minister, Netanyahu has the authority to order police to halt the visits on security grounds, and his office said the ban was open-ended. In recent weeks, clashes have erupted at the holy site between Palestinian rock-throwers and Israeli police.
    Israeli government officials have accused Palestinian leaders of playing on Muslim concerns over al-Aqsa to incite Palestinians to violence - so far mostly "lone-wolf" attacks that appear to fall short of an organised uprising.
    But Israeli military officials have noted that security cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank, is continuing. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said publicly he wants to avoid armed confrontation with Israel.
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