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| 2 Palestinian rioters shot and wounded during clashes in East Jerusalem, police say |
| 2023-01-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] Injured suspects in Silwan neighborhood taken to hospital for treatment; police say they hurled Molotov cocktails, firecrackers at officers from close range. Police officers shot and moderately hurt two Paleostinians allegedly involved in riots in East Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, law enforcement officials said. According to a police spokesperson, officers of the Jerusalem precinct and Border Police troops operated in the neighborhood of Silwan amid Police said that "at a certain point, a Border Police officer — who was operating at the scene felt his life was in danger due to fireworks being fired directly at him and Molotov cocktails being hurled at him from a range of a few meters — fired accurately at the two suspects and neutralized them," according to the spokesperson. Police said they found a utility knife, a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", flag, and a bunch of firecrackers among the suspects’ belongings. Officers also operated in a number of other locations in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, police said, with forces using riot dispersal means to disperse crowds. No coppers were hurt during the violence. Jerusalem District Police Commander Doron Turgeman instructed officers to increase "operational activity" to maintain order in East Jerusalem, police said. Earlier Wednesday, police clashed with Paleostinians in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem as they demolished the home of a gunman who killed an Israeli soldier last year. A Paleostinian teenager was killed amid the festivities after he aimed a weapon that turned out to be a fake gun at the officers. A video released by police showed the suspect pointing what appears to be a gun at the forces, then running away as officers opened fire. At one point he threw the item away, before collapsing. The gun later turned out to be fake and not a real firearm, a police spokesperson said. The suspect, named as Salah Muhammad Ali, 17, was listed at death's door and was taken for further medical treatment. Paleostinian media later said he had died of his wounds. Hundreds of coppers entered Shuafat on Wednesday morning to demolish Udai Tamimi’s home. Tamimi is accused of killing Sgt. Noa Lazar, 18, and seriously wounding a civilian guard on October 8, 2022, at a checkpoint near the camp. Tamimi expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and was killed while attempting to commit another attack at a checkpoint near the entrance of the West Bank settlement city of Ma’aleh Adumim on October 19. One security guard was lightly hurt in the incident Israel regularly demolishes the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks as a matter of policy. The efficacy of the policy has been hotly debated even within the Israeli security establishment, while human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... Also Wednesday morning, a Paleostinian man who attempted to stab soldiers in the northern West Bank was rubbed out. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the Paleostinian, armed with a knife, approached an army post on Route 55 near the settlement of Kedumim and tried to stab soldiers. Surveillance camera footage of the incident showed the suspect exiting a red car next to the army post which is adjacent to a bus stop, running toward the troops, and apparently attempting to stab them, before being shot. Tensions have soared in the West Bank as the IDF has pressed on with an anti-terror offensive mostly focused on the northern West Bank to deal with a series of attacks that have left 31 people in Israel dead in 2022. The IDF’s operation has netted more than 2,500 arrests in near-nightly raids. It also left 171 Paleostinians dead in 2022, and another 20 since the beginning of the year, many of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, though some were uninvolved civilians. In arrest raids across the West Bank early Wednesday, the IDF said troops arrested 11 wanted Paleostinians. More about the attempted stabbing at the West Bank army post: Local security officials said the suspect, named as Aref Abdel Nasser Lahlouh, 20, from the Jenin refugee camp, was killed.The military said no soldiers were hurt in the incident. Related: Silwan: 2022-10-13 East Jerusalem quiets after hours of riots as police brace for more clashes Silwan: 2022-09-28 Police clash with protesters in East Jerusalem for 3rd straight night Silwan: 2022-09-27 Palestinian rioters face off with police in East Jerusalem for 2nd night in a row Related: Shuafat: 2022-12-05 Officers seize M-16 rifle from suspect at Shuafat crossing in Jerusalem Shuafat: 2022-11-10 Israel to raze Jerusalem home of Palestinian gunman behind deadly checkpoint attack Shuafat: 2022-10-29 Nasrallah calls maritime deal enforced on Zionist entity 'great victory for Lebanon' |
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