A Palestinian teenager shot last week after attacking Israeli officers at a police station in annexed east Jerusalem died of his wounds yesterday, a hospital said.
“The fighter from the incident in the Armon Hanatziv police station has died,” the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem said in a statement. Official Palestinian news agency WAFA named the fighter as Abdul Rahman Abu Jamal, 17, from Jabel Mukaber, a Palestinian neighbourhood adjacent to the settler district of Armon Hanatziv.
Abu Jamal was seriously wounded as he was overpowered by officers during the rare attack inside a security force base late on November 14 after scaling a fence around it. Seven police officers were lightly wounded in the attack, one of them by a gunshot from a fellow officer. A wave of stabbing attacks against Israelis by lone-wolf Palestinian fighters erupted in 2015 but they have since become sporadic.
Also yesterday, a suspected Palestinian stabbed an Israeli Jew in the face outside a shop near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a police spokesman calling it “a terror attack”. The victim, an ultra-Orthodox man, was lightly wounded, with the perpetrator remaining at large.
Supporters of exiled Palestinian politician and Fatah movement’s former security chief, Mohamed Dahlan, hold images of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a commemoration ceremony held on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of Arafat’s death, yesterday in Gaza City.