Israeli forces have arrested a Palestinian teenage girl in the occupied East al-Quds over a retaliatory stabbing attack against a settler.
Israeli police claimed in a statement that a settler was stabbed in the back and lightly wounded at the entrance to the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East al-Quds on Wednesday morning.
A Palestinian teenager in Tulkarem has been killed by Israeli forces after he allegedly carried out a ramming attack and wounded an Israeli security guard ⬇https://t.co/FATEqjt5kS
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Medics were quickly called to the scene and treated the injured Israeli woman, 26, before taking her to the nearby Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital.
Israeli police later cordoned off Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, according to witnesses.
They said that Israeli forces closed all roads leading to the neighborhood, broke into homes, stopped and checked cars and buses as a helicopter hovered over the area in search of the assailant.
Israeli police later announced that officers arrested a teenage girl suspected of carrying out the attack in a nearby educational institution.
Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has hailed the attack on Israelis.
“The heroic actions in the West Bank and al-Quds, the most recent of which was the stabbing of a settler in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, prove the greatness of our people whose resistance cannot be broken,” Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanoo said.
He added, “Our people in the West Bank and al-Quds are in an open battle with the occupation. They will pursue invaders and herds of settlers, anywhere and by all available means, until they leave our lands.”
On Monday morning, the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian minor, who has been identified as 16-year-old Mohammad Nidal Younis from the village of Kufr Qalil in Nablus.
They said that Israeli forces closed all roads leading to the neighborhood, broke into homes, stopped and checked cars and buses as a helicopter hovered over the area in search of the assailant.
Israeli "soldiers" extrajudicially shoot dead a Palestinian teenager in Tulkarm, just a day after similarly murdering another Palestinian man https://t.co/8gdYrklsGB
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Israeli police later announced that officers arrested a teenage girl suspected of carrying out the attack in a nearby educational institution.
Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has hailed the attack on Israelis.
“The heroic actions in the West Bank and al-Quds, the most recent of which was the stabbing of a settler in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, prove the greatness of our people whose resistance cannot be broken,” Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanoo said.
He added, “Our people in the West Bank and al-Quds are in an open battle with the occupation. They will pursue invaders and herds of settlers, anywhere and by all available means, until they leave our lands.”
On Monday morning, the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian minor, who has been identified as 16-year-old Mohammad Nidal Younis from the village of Kufr Qalil in Nablus.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
