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Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli police arrested a young woman she said was hiding in a school after a stabbing Wednesday in a tense neighborhood in annexed East Jerusalem.
“In the last few minutes, police forces arrested a suspect, a minor, who was located by police inside an educational facility near the scene of the incident,” the police said. police.
The victim, 26, was taken to hospital after the knife attack on the road to Sheikh Jarrah’s red light district and was being treated for “minor” injuries, police said.
Sheikh Jarrah has been affected by waves of unrest linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The neighborhood is home to at least seven Palestinian families who are awaiting an Israeli court ruling on whether to cede their homes to Jewish settlers in a case that exploded into armed conflict in and around Gaza in May.
There have been sporadic attacks on Israeli targets in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent months, most of them by lone wolves seemingly unrelated to established Palestinian militant groups.
A Palestinian teenager rammed his car into an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank early Monday before being shot and killed by a security guard, officials said.
On Saturday, a Palestinian assailant stabbed an Israeli civilian and attempted to attack police near the entrance to the Damascus Gate in the Old City of East Jerusalem.
The assailant was shot dead by police, who appeared to shoot the suspect while he was on the ground, sparking debate over excessive force.
The Israeli authorities insisted that the officers acted appropriately.
Last month, a civilian was killed and three people injured when a Palestinian opened fire in the Old City in a rare rifle attack by an activist from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the Six Day War of 1967 and then annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.
The Palestinians claim the eastern part of the city as the capital of their future state.
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