Police officer critically injured in coordinated shooting, stabbing attack in Jerusalem

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A Border Police guard was critically wounded and three others were lightly injured on Friday in what appeared to be a coordinated stabbing and shooting attack in two areas in Jerusalem’s Old City.

At least two terrorists armed with knives attacked a group of Border Police officers at Damascus Gate on Sultan Suleiman Street, critically injuring a female cop.

One of the attackers held a homemade Carl Gustav sub-machine gun, which is said to have jammed, averting a possibly much deadlier attack.

Both attackers were shot and killed by troops.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-officer-critically-injured-in-coordinated-shooting-and-stabbing-attack-in-jerusalem/

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1. Border Police officer killed in Jerusalem attack named as Hadas Malka, 23

The Border Police officer killed in a coordinated stabbing and shooting attack in two areas in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday evening was identified late Friday as Hadas Malka, 23. The three attackers, all of whom were members of Palestinian terrorist groups, were shot dead in the course of the attacks.

Staff Sergeant Malka was a resident of Moshav Givat Ezer in central Israel. She did her mandatory military service in the Border Police, and then extended her service 15 months ago and became an officer. She leaves behind parents and five siblings, three sisters and two brothers.

Malka was critically injured in a stabbing attack on Sultan Suleiman Street near Damascus Gate on Friday evening. She was transferred to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem where she underwent emergency surgery but later succumbed to her injuries.

She fought her attacker for several seconds while attempting to draw her weapon, according to a Border Police statement. Nearby troops shot and killed the assailant.

According to the Border Police statement, Malka was part of a group of officers responding to sounds of gunfire near their area of patrol close to Damascus Gate, when she was attacked.

The gunfire was coming from an attack seconds earlier in which two assailants attacked Border Police troops with a homemade Carl Gustav sub-machine gun and knives, at Zedakiah’s Cave in the Muslim Quarter. Some reports said the gun used by the attackers jammed, preventing further casualties. The two attackers were killed.

While on her way to the scene, Malka was accosted by a third attacker.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-officer-stabbed-in-jerusalem-coordinated-attack-dies-of-her-wounds/

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3. Palestinian militant groups deny Islamic State claim of Jerusalem attack

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Sat Jun 17, 2017 | 1:51am EDT

Palestinian militant groups deny Islamic State claim of Jerusalem attack

Palestinian militant factions denied on Saturday a claim by Islamic State that three Palestinian men who carried out a fatal shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem were members of the militant group.

Islamic State took responsibility for the attack on Friday, in which one Israeli police officer was killed and another wounded, according to the group's Amaq news agency.

Israeli security officials did not respond immediately to requests for comment on what the SITE intelligence monitoring group described as the first time Islamic State had claimed responsibility for an attack in Israeli-controlled territory, nor on the attackers' affiliation.

However, a senior official from Hamas, the Islamic group that rules the Gaza Strip, and the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the three attackers, who were all shot dead at the scene, were their own members.

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