Jerusalem: Woman tries to stab police officers – 30-year-old suspect dead

A woman tried to attack Israeli forces in her old town Jerusalem before being “neutralized” today, as announced by the Israeli police.

According to a press release of the Israeli police, the woman, equipped with “Sharp object”, he tried to stab police officers on a road leading to the Al Aqsa Mosque.

A French Agency journalist heard shots and saw body of a woman fallen to the ground, before covering it with a thermal blanket.

Israeli police “opened fire” on the suspect and “medical forces who arrived on the scene confirmed her death”, according to the press release, which states that there were no casualties in its ranks.

The woman, aged about 30 years old, has not been recognized so far. He was leaving the mosque square when he approached the police, according to the announcement, as broadcast by AMPE.

Members of the Israeli security forces are deployed at all entrances to the mosque square, the third holiest site for Islam and the holiest site of Judaism, in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian section of the city occupied and annexed by the Jewish state.

In May, multi-day incidents in the square between Palestinians and Israeli forces sparked a flurry of Israeli and Palestinian territory.

On Sunday, five Palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli forces conducting an operation in the occupied West Bank to prevent attacks, according to officials.

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