Jerusalem, February 23. A Palestinian woman was injured after she tried to stab an Israeli guard at a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, official sources said, amid an upsurge in violence that has claimed more than 70 lives in 2023.
“A terrorist armed with a knife approached security officers at the entrance to Male Adumim,” a Jewish settlement in the West Bank very close to Jerusalem, police said in a statement, which shows a photograph of the weapon: a small classic kitchen knife.
“Security officers opened fire on the armed threat and the terrorist was neutralized,” he added.
The Palestinian National Authority’s health ministry said the woman “was lightly injured in her lower limbs after being shot by occupation forces.”
The incident comes amid a spike in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which so far this year alone has claimed 11 lives on the Israeli side and claimed the lives of 61 Palestinians, the ‘highest’ number in history. territory occupied since the year. 2000, according to the ANP Ministry of Health.
Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip this morning after identifying six rockets coming from the coastal enclave, the day after a violent raid in the occupied West Bank that killed 11 Palestinians, including six militants.
Such raids have become almost daily since late March last year, when Israel launched its so-called “Break the Wave” operation in response to a series of deadly attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.
Israel took control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967, and has since maintained what is considered to be one of the longest occupations in recent history. ECE
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