Israeli police fatally shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said.
And in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead a male insurgent who opened fire on them during clashes prompted by an overnight arrest operation, police said.
According to a police statement, the woman in Jerusalem tried to stab police in one of the streets leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israeli police opened fire at the assailant and medical forces who arrived at the scene determined her death, police said, adding that the attempted attack did not result in any casualties.
The 30-year-old assailant, from Qabatiya in the north of the occupied West Bank, was leaving the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third holiest site, when she approached officers, police said.
In the village of Burqin, also in the northern West Bank near Jenin, Israeli troops and border police were conducting an operation to arrest suspects and locate weapons, a police statement said.
During the operation an armed terrorist fired at the forces who were operating in the village during a riot, police said.
Palestinian group Islamic Jihad said the man killed was a member of its military wing. No Israeli forces were wounded in the incident, police said.
In Jerusalem, Israeli security forces are stationed at each entrance to the Al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
The compound lies in east Jerusalem, the Palestinian sector of the city which Israel occupied in 1967 and later annexed in a move never recognized by the international community.
Five Palestinians were killed on Sunday after an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank sparked gun battles with Hamas members, two of them in Burqin, officials said.
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