A Palestinian killed by Israeli police after a knife attack at Ashkelon

This attack then intervenes that the Israeli forces carry out an operation in the north of the occupied West Bank, in the wake of an attack that made three deaths on April 7 in Tel Aviv and which was perpetrated by a Palestinian originating from the 7th of April. Refugee camp of Jenin.

Le Monde and AFP

The Israeli police shot down a Palestinian who had just attacked the knife an officer in the coastal town of Ashkelon, announced the police, Tuesday, April 12th.

“In an operation at Ashkelon, an officer has identified a suspicious man and started conducting an identity check. But the man took out a knife and attacked the officer who replied quickly by opening up The fire on him “, explained the Israeli police in a message, stating that the assailant, a Palestinian, had been killed.

According to the Israeli police, the assailant is a resident of the Palestinian city of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank. The police officer involved in this incident was “slightly injured” and evacuated in a local hospital.

Sunday, the Israeli forces had killed a Palestinian stabbed a police officer in the center of the city of Hebron, where about 1,000 Jewish settlers under high military protection among 200,000 Palestinians. The same day, another Palestinian, widow and mother of six children, heading “suspicious” according to the army to Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, had been killed by the police. But the woman had not in the end any knife on her.

These incidents intervene while the Israeli forces carry out an operation in the north of the occupied West Bank, in the wake of an attack who had three dead on April 7 in Tel Aviv and which was perpetrated by a Palestinian originating from the 7th of April. Refugee camp of Jenin.

/Media reports.