Two teenage Palestinian girls stabbed and lightly wounded an elderly man near a Jerusalem market on Monday before the police opened fire, killing one of them and seriously wounding the other.
Two teenage Palestinian girls stabbed and lightly wounded an elderly man near a Jerusalem market on Monday before the police opened fire, killing one of them and seriously wounding the other.
The police said the 70-year-old victim was Palestinian too, apparently from the occupied West Bank. It was not immediately clear whether he had been targeted because he had been mistaken for an Israeli.
“Two female terrorists armed with scissors stabbed a man next to the (Mahane Yehuda) market,” police spokesperson Luba Samri said.
“An officer who observed the event approached, fired accurately and neutralised the terrorists,” she added.
The police said the assailants were from the Jerusalem area and aged 14 and 16.
The victim was taken to the Hadassah Hospital with light injuries after being stabbed in the back and head, a hospital spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, another Palestinian stabbed two Israelis on the edge of the West Bank on Monday, killing one of them before being shot dead, the Israeli Army said. “Moments ago a Palestinian murdered an Israeli and wounded another in an attack at a gas station on route 443,” an Army statement said, referring to a main road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
