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| Female stabber shot and killed during Old City attack attempt | |
| 2016-03-09 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Police open fire as East Jerusalem woman, 50, who had Israeli citizenship, tries unsuccessfully to knife them near Damascus Gate Police officers shot and killed an Arab Israeli woman as she attempted to stab them in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, officials said. No officers were maimed in the attack. The assailant died of wounds suffered from gunfire, police said. The 50-year-old woman, an Israeli citizen, approached the officers who were standing on Hagai Street, which runs from the Damascus Gate to the Western Wall. As she got closer, she took a knife out of her bag and attempted to stab them, police said. "The officers who were in clear and present danger responded quickly and professionally. They shot and neutralized the threat," police said in a statement. Police officers who arrived on the scene gave the woman first aid, but after a few minutes they pronounced her dead at the scene, police said. The assailant’s name was Fadwa Ahmad Muhammad Abu Tier, according to the Paleostinian Ma’an news outlet. She was a resident of the Umm Tuba neighborhood of East Jerusalem and an Israeli citizen, a spokesperson said. Shortly before that, in Qalandiya, IDF Military Police officers locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a Paleostinian woman who had a knife hidden in her bag, the army said. The Military Police officers, who guard some checkpoints, saw the knife as the woman’s bag passed through their X-ray machine, the IDF said in a statement.
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