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| Palestinian attempts Yom Kippur stabbing in Jerusalem, is killed — police | |
| 2018-09-19 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Cops say assailant knocked a Jewish man to the ground, ran at them with sharp object, outside the Old City just after start of fast day A Paleostinian attempted to carry out a stabbing attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday evening, and was rubbed out by Israeli police, Israeli and Paleostinian officials said. An Israeli police statement reported "an attempted stabbing attack" near Damascus Gate, saying "a police unit at the spot neutralized the suspect," with the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry saying it was informed of the death of a civilian by gunshots. According to police, the attacker ran at a Jewish man and knocked him over onto the ground; he then "continued running toward the coppers while waving a sharp object and trying to harm them." The assailant was a 26-year-old from the Qalandiya refugee camp outside Jerusalem, who was in Israel illegally, according to the Haaretz website. Police did not say if anyone else was harmed in the incident. It occurred just after sunset on Tuesday, as Jews began observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. "The widespread deployment of police in Jerusalem and their alertness prevented an attack that could have ended with harsh results," police said. Earlier Tuesday Police placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! five Moslem activists on the Temple Mount and accused them of trying to obstruct a group of Jewish visitors touring the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. Tensions are often increased around Jewish holidays, which often see an uptick in the number of Jewish visitors to the site. According to the police and video from the scene, the five suspects belong to the al-Aqsa Youth organization and had blocked a group of Jewish religious visitors. "Police asked them several times not to disturb the public order and not to interfere with the proper functioning of the visits, but they did not respond," a police spokesperson said in a statement. Video from the incident released by the left-wing Ir Amim organization showed police scuffling with a group of Moslems on the compound, which houses the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque and is known as the Haram al-Sharif in Arabic. According to Ir Amim, police had tried to move two people who work for the Waqf Islamic endowment, which administers the site, from a path where the Jewish visitors had been walking. A Waqf spokesperson said four people were maimed in the fighting. The spokesperson accused the police of "assaulting ...Waqf officials, mosque guards and worshipers," the official Paleostinian Authority news outlet Wafa reported. According to the prevailing status quo at the site, Jews are allowed to visit but not pray there. Visits by religious Jews are closely guarded by a police escort and Waqf representatives generally also follow the groups closely. Police said earlier in the week that they would beef up their presence in the Old City for Yom Kippur and the Moslem holy day of Ashura, which falls the next day.
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