Palestinian shot dead after killing Israeli

Published October 4, 2015
A member of the Zaka Rescue and Recovery team cleans blood stains at the scene where a Palestinian was shot dead after he stabbed and killed two people in Jerusalem's Old City October 3, 2015.— Reuters
A member of the Zaka Rescue and Recovery team cleans blood stains at the scene where a Palestinian was shot dead after he stabbed and killed two people in Jerusalem's Old City October 3, 2015.— Reuters

JERUSALEM: Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian wielding a knife and a gun after he attacked four Israelis, killing one of them, in the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday, rescue services and police said.

The attack comes amid high tensions in Jerusalem after clashes between police and Palestinians at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Channel 10 TV reported that the Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man multiple times and took his gun which he then used to shoot at his family and toward a group of tourists, wounding four other people including a two-year-old child.

Earlier, several Palestinians were wounded during an Israeli arrest raid in the West Bank as troops combed the area for suspected Palestinian gunmen who killed an Israeli couple in front of their children.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said eight people were wounded by live fire early on Saturday in the northern town of Nablus. A Palestinian security official said seven members of the Islamic militant group Hamas were arrested.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2015

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