OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on
Sunday and wounded another, hours after the arrest of two Palestinians
suspected of stabbing three Israelis, according to AFP.
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A 19-year-old Palestinian
without an Israeli entry permit allegedly stabbed a police officer outside the
Old City in East Jerusalem before being shot by forces at the scene, an Israeli
statement said.
Meanwhile, after more than a
two-day manhunt, Israel also arrested two Palestinians
suspected of killing three Israelis in a stabbing attack in Elad on Sunday,
according to AFP.
Israeli forces said the pair — previously
identified as Assad Yussef al-Rifai, 19, and Subhi Imad Abu Shukair, 20 — were
spotted hiding in a bush near a quarry, just outside where the axe attack took
place on Thursday.
"The two terrorists who murdered three
Israeli civilians in the deadly attack in the city of Elad have been
caught," the police, army, and domestic security agency said in a joint
statement following a massive search.
No details on the location of the arrest
were immediately disclosed.
Later Sunday a Palestinian youth was fatally
shot by Israeli forces near a military checkpoint to the south of Tulkarem, in the
northern occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
The Palestinian ministry of health
identified him as Mahmoud Sami Khalil, from Khan Yunis city, in the southern
Gaza Strip.
Also on Sunday, according to Al-Jazeera
News, Israeli forces armed with military vehicles raided the Palestinians
suspects’ home in Rummaneh village west of Jenin, eyewitnesses told Maan news
site.
The stabbings took place on Thursday, on
what Israel marks as its 74th independence day.
For Palestinians, the anniversary of
Israel's 1948 declaration of independence marks the Nakba, or
"catastrophe", when more than 700,000 were violently expelled or
forced to flee from their homes.
According to Al-Jazeera News Elad, an
ultra-Orthodox Jewish town, is built on the remains of the Palestinian village
Al-Muzayriyah, which was ethnically cleansed and destroyed in July 1948.
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