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Sunday 26 April 2015 - 09:05

Four Israeli officers struck by car, injured in al-Quds

Story Code : 456619
Four Israeli police officers were injured after being struck by a car (shown) in East Jerusalem (al-Quds), April 25, 2015.
Four Israeli police officers were injured after being struck by a car (shown) in East Jerusalem (al-Quds), April 25, 2015.
The incident happened in at-Tur neighborhood on Saturday, Israeli media reported. One of the soldiers is said to be in critical condition.
 
The Israeli military claims the suspect is a Palestinian.
 
The incident comes after a day of tensions following the killing of a Palestinian teenager at a checkpoint set up by the Israeli military in the area. Several Palestinians were wounded during the clashes that erupted in East al-Quds.
 
According to reports, Israeli forces shot dead the 16-year-old Palestinian boy on Friday night, while he was walking toward the al-Zaim checkpoint with his family, claiming that he intended to stab an Israeli officer.
 
Also on Saturday, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), making a similar claim that he had stabbed a border policeman.
 
Israeli forces were reportedly preventing Palestinians from entering the area of the Ibrahimi Mosque, known as the Cave of the Patriarchs, in al-Khalil at the time the incident took place.
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