Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who had just stabbed an officer in the coastal city of Ashkelon, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday (April 12th).
“During an operation in Ashkelon, an officer identified a suspicious man and began conducting an identity check. But the man pulled out a knife and attacked the officer who quickly responded by opening fire on him.”Israeli police said in a message, stating that the assailant, a Palestinian, had been killed.
Israeli police say the assailant is a resident of the Palestinian city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. The police officer involved in this incident was meanwhile “slightly injured” and evacuated to a local hospital.
On Sunday, Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian woman who stabbed a policeman in the center of the city of Hebron, where around 1,000 Jewish settlers live under heavy military protection among 200,000 Palestinians. The same day, another Palestinian woman, widow and mother of six children, heading in a “suspicious” according to the army towards Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, had been killed by the security forces. But the woman ultimately had no knife on her.
The incidents come as Israeli forces conduct an operation in the northern occupied West Bank, following an April 7 attack in Tel Aviv that killed three people by a Palestinian from the refugee camp. from Jenin.
