[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man approached officers with a knife and was shot by police Thursday morning in the East Jerusalem refugee camp of Shuafat, police said.Police and Border Police officers came to the refugee camp to arrest a suspect.
During the arrest, residents of Shuafat attempted to hinder the arrest, and at one point the Paleostinian approached the officers holding a knife and was shot, police said.
No coppers were maimed in the incident.
The Paleostinian man, identified by local media as Yihya Hijazi, was lightly injured and taken to a Jerusalem hospital after being treated by Magen David Adom medics, a police spokeswoman told The Times of Israel.
Police said they completed the arrest of the suspect and exited the refugee camp.
A Fatah party front man later told the Paleostinian Ma’an news agency that the man who was shot was trying to take a knife away from the suspect who was placed in durance vile
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On Wednesday, Border Police officers operating in the Paleostinian town of al-Ram north of Jerusalem opened fire on a vehicle that officers said was accelerating toward them, killing one Paleostinian passenger, Anwar al Salaimeh, 22. A second person in the car was maimed. A third was unhurt, and was arrested by police and taken for questioning.
One of the border coppers opened fire, according to the army, after he "felt in danger."
An IDF statement said the incident was being investigated.