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| Palestinian cop wounds 3 IDF soldiers in a shooting attack, is shot dead |
| 2016-11-01 |
| [IsraelTimes] Three Israeli soldiers were maimed, one of them seriously, in a shooting attack when a Paleostinian police officer opened fire on them at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, officials said. The gunman approached the Focus checkpoint, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, and opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle at the troops stationed there, the army said. "The force responded [to the attack] with return fire at the terrorist," the army said. The assailant was shot and killed by Israeli forces, an IDF spokesperson said. The gunman was named as Muhammad Turkman, a police officer from Qabatiya, by both the official Paleostinian Authority news outlet al-Hayat al-Jadida and Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. The three soldiers were all approximately 20 years old and sustained "penetrating wounds" -- meaning gunshot injuries -- to the extremities, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. One was seriously maimed in the attack, while two others sustained light injuries from shrapnel, MDA said. The seriously injured soldier was taken to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus for treatment. According to the PA outlet’s report, Turkman served in a "special forces unit." A photograph of the police officer, sitting next to an AK-47, quickly began circulating around Paleostinian social media after the attack. In a statement, the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terrorist organization lauded the attack and encouraged other members of the Paleostinian security services to carry out similar attacks. While relatively uncommon, members of the Paleostinian security forces have carried out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians over the past year. In January, another member of the PA security forces, Amjad Sakari, 35, also shot up a group of soldiers manning the Focus checkpoint, injuring three of them before he too was shot and killed. Some two weeks later, a Paleostinian police officer, along with a companion, shot up a group of Border Police officers at the Damascus Gate. No Israelis were maimed in the attack, while both assailants were rubbed out in the ensuing shootout with border guards. 8 arrested in East Jerusalem for rioting, hurling firebombs [IsraelTimes] Eight people are tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in East Jerusalem on suspicion of taking part in riots and throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. The eight, including three minors, are detained in raids in the Silwan and A-Tur neighborhoods. Police say the arrests will continue as long as there are efforts to attack members of the security forces. |
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