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Palestinian killed after stabbing two Israeli police officers in Jerusalem, police say

Palestinian killed after stabbing two Israeli police officers in Jerusalem, police say

Clash with Israeli police

Israelipoliceshot dead aPalestinianmanafterhe stabbedtwoofficersat a gate toJerusalem's walled Old City on Monday, apolicestatement said. It was the second such incident intwodays.

Policesaid thetwoofficerssuffered light to moderate wounds and were taken to hospital.

Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, claimed the attacker as a member.It praised thestabbingattack as a response to what it called Israel's "extrajudicial killings" ofPalestinians inJerusalemwithout arresting them or putting them on trial.

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"These operations will continue as long as the occupation continues its aggression and its violations against the sacred sites inJerusalem," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said.

A video on social media showed severalpoliceofficersshouting and pointing their guns at the man as he lay on the ground at the Cotton Merchants' Gate.

Photos distributed bypoliceshowed a bloodied knife on the ground.

The state-runPalestiniannews agency Wafa identified the man as Abdulrahman Qasem from Jalazon refugee camp near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

On Sunday, aPalestinianman who stabbed and wounded anIsraelipoliceman in the Old City waskilledwhenofficersfired at him,policesaid.

Later that day,Israelisoldiers shot aPalestinianwho threw a fire bomb at an army post outsideJerusalem, a military spokesman said.Palestinianofficials identified him as a 16-year-old who later died of his wounds.

Israel captured EastJerusalemand the Old City, along with the West Bank and Gaza in a 1967 war.Palestinians seek those areas for a future state.Israeli-Palestinianpeace talks collapsed in 2014.