Israeli police kill alleged Palestinian stabber in Jerusalem
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Israeli police say officers shot a Palestinian woman who allegedly attempted to stab them in east Jerusalem’s Old City
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police said Thursday that officers shot a Palestinian woman who allegedly attempted to stab them in east Jerusalem’s Old City. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The police said in a statement that the woman approached officers outside an entrance to the city’s flashpoint holy site known to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa Compound and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
"After she approached them, she drew a knife and attempted to stab the officers at the scene, who responded by shooting at her,” police said in a statement. “Medical personnel who arrived at the scene pronounced her dead.”
The woman's identity was not immediately known.
