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| Border Police officer stabbed, wounded in West Bank; Palestinian attacker shot dead |
| 2022-12-03 |
| [IsraelTimes] After stabbing, suspect tussles with officer and tries to grab his gun before being shot at close range, the 9th Paleostinian to be killed in West Bank violence in last four days. A Paleostinian man stabbed and maimed a Border Police officer in the northern West Bank town of Hawara on Friday, before being rubbed out by Israeli forces, police and medics said. Border Police said in a statement that a team of officers was operating in the flashpoint Paleostinian town when the suspect pulled a knife and managed to stab one of the officers, lightly injuring him. Other officers then "neutralized" the attacker, the statement said. Footage posted to social media showed a Border Police officer trying to apprehend the suspect as two other Paleostinians were trying to pull him free. An officer managed to pull the alleged stabber away from them in a headlock, but the suspect then briefly freed himself from his grasp and appeared to try and grab the officer’s automatic weapon. The officer then allowed the weapon to fall to the ground as he pulled a handgun from a holster and fired four times point-blank, killing the suspect. He then retrieved his automatic weapon and appears to call for backup before the video clip ends. Border Police said that the officer with stab wounds was subsequently evacuated for medical treatment, as was the officer who subdued the attacker. Both were lightly maimed. Hawara is a frequent flashpoint with a highway running through the town being a main route for settlers traveling in the northern West Bank. A later police statement said that the incident started when the Paleostinian tried to enter a vehicle with an Israeli couple in. While trying to break through the locked door, one of the occupants — an off-duty IDF officer — shot and apparently maimed the man with his handgun. The attacker then ran at a nearby Border Police officer and stabbed him. The dead attacker was not immediately identified, but he was the ninth Paleostinian killed in West Bank violence in less than four days. Two Paleostinian terror group fighters were killed in heavy festivities with Israeli troops that broke out during a pre-dawn Thursday arrest raid near the northern West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp. Another Paleostinian was killed in festivities with Israeli troops in the northern West Bank town of Yabed on Wednesday afternoon. Four Paleostinians were killed in festivities with the IDF throughout the West Bank on Tuesday and another Paleostinian was killed after carrying out a car-ramming attack that seriously maimed a soldier that same day. |
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