Israeli police have shot dead three Palestinians after a deadly knife attack outside the Old City of Jerusalem, in which a policewoman died.
The Israeli army said the assailants appeared have acted independently, like numerous attackers in a wave of unrest that has rocked Israel and the occupied territories since October 2015.
It was one in two incidents in which three Palestinians armed with semi-automatic weapons and knives attacked Israeli guards in the Old City. Border Police Chief Sergeant Hadas Malka was stabbed to death.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) Palestinian militants denied an Islamic State claim Saturday that it was behind a deadly attack against Israel, saying it was their people who killed a female police officer on duty near Jerusalem's Old City.
After terror attacks, pro-Israel groups may criticize wire services for misleading headlines that focus on Palestinian casualties.
The paper also said the Palestinians intend to ask UNESCO to declare the old city of Hebron and its Ibrahimi mosque as a Palestinian world heritage sites.
The second attack reportedly happened outside the tourist landmark Zedekiah's Cave several dozen yards away, with the stabber swinging wildly at passersby.
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Mamata Banerjee said her government was ready to talk to the protesters but could not support the "violation of the constitution". Morcha supporters allegedly started stone pelting and police retaliated by firing tear gas shells, WION has learnt.
Numerous stabbing attacks have targeted border police deployed at the Old City's Damascus Gate. He continued: "The thunderous silence of the Palestinian Authority, which refuses to condemn terrorism, while at the same time Fatah announces that Israel murdered three innocents yesterday, proves that there is no partner on the other side". In that time, some 250 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire. The third terrorist was eliminated as well, but not before he succeeded in fatally stabbing the border policewoman.
In late 2015 and 2016, such attacks happened with near-daily frequency but the rate has declined in recent months.
Palestinians say it stems from anger over decades of Israeli rule in territory they claim for their state.
Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency identified the three Palestinians as Bara Saleh, born in 1998; Adel Ankoush, born in 1999; and Asama Atta, born in 1998.
"Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise".
A wave of unrest that broke out in October 2015 has claimed the lives of 272 Palestinians, 42 Israelis, two Americans, two Jordanians, an Eritrean, a Sudanese and a Briton.
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