Israeli police kill Palestinian in Jerusalem stabbing
Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian in annexed east Jerusalem late on Saturday after he stabbed an Israeli civilian and tried to attack police, Israeli police and Palestinian medics said. The assailant stabbed a man near the Damascus Gate to the walled Old City and then "attempted to stab a border police officer", police said in a statement. "Police neutralised the stabber," it added. A spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent said police killed the assailant. Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service said the stabbing victim was a 20-year-old religious Jew who was taken to hospital in "moderate to severe condition". Palestinian official news agency Wafa identified the assailant as Mohammad Shawkat Ahmed Salima, 25, from the northern West Bank town of Salfit.
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