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Police: Assailant shot attempting to stab cops in Jerusalem Old City, later dies
[IsraelTimes] Attacker was Arab medical college director, 51; officer hit by ricochet, lightly injured; festivities reported in West Bank, but Temple Mount prayers pass peacefully

An assailant was shot as he attempted to stab coppers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday afternoon, and later died of his wounds, police and hospital officials said, amid heightened tension as security forces carry out an intense manhunt for six escaped Paleostinian security prisoners.

The attempted stabbing occurred at the Old City’s Council (Majlis) Gate, on the northern side of the western Temple Mount wall, police said. Video of the incident showed the assailant repeatedly trying to stab a police officer, who backed away and opened fire.

"Soon after 4 p.m., the assailant... armed with a knife arrived at the officers’ post in the Council Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem and tried to injure the forces there. A quick response by the officers and border guards, who shot up the assailant, neutralized him before he could carry out this intention," police said.

The assailant’s knife was recovered at the scene.

According to police, the assailant was a 51-year-old Arab man, a resident of East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp. The Paleostinian Authority identified him as Hazim al-Joulani, director of the al-Rayyan alternative medicine college in East Jerusalem and an expert in Chinese acupuncture. Married with children, his Facebook page said al-Joulani used to work in Israel’s Assaf Harofeh hospital outside Tel Aviv.

He was taken to the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus at death's door with a gunshot wound in the upper body, where he later died of his wounds, the hospital said.

In surveillance footage released by police, the attacker can be seen walking down an Old City alley. When he reaches the police position, he suddenly breaks into a run toward an officer, trying to stab him. The cop can be seen backpedaling to get away before shooting the knife-wielding attacker.

A police officer was also lightly maimed in the leg, apparently, after being hit by a ricochet, police said. Medics said the injured officer, 19, sustained a light wound to the leg. He was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center for further care, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.

Israeli TV reports said al-Joulani was a lone-wolf attacker, not associated with a terrorist group, and that he had recently tried to take his own life amid financial difficulties.
Suicide by IDF. And it comes with a pension for the family from Palestinian Authority — that is to say Western donor — coffers.
The incident came amid heightened tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, following a prison break by six Paleostinian security prisoners earlier in the week, though the level of violence was lower than initially feared as of Friday afternoon.

Some 15,000 people visited the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount for Friday prayers — often a flashpoint for festivities with Israeli security forces — but no such altercations were reported.

However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
 many Paleostinians were seen waving spoons, an apparent nod to how the escapees tunneled out of jail.

In the West Bank, six Paleostinians were maimed by rubber bullets and 34 from tear gas inhalation during festivities with the Israel Defense Forces, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-11
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