(AhlulBayt News Agency) - One Palestinian was killed and another was critically wounded by Israeli forces after allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Monday afternoon, Israeli police said.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that two Palestinians were “apprehended and neutralized” at the Ibrahimi mosque checkpoint in Hebron after carrying out a stabbing attack on a border police officer.
Israeli authorities regularly uses the word “neutralized” when referring to Palestinians who are shot dead at the scene of an attack or alleged attack.
Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said in a statement in Arabic that border police officers saw two “suspicious” Palestinians approaching the checkpoint and asked them to stop. When the two Palestinian youths continued walking towards them, brandishing knives, the officers opened fire, killing one of them on the scene and critically injuring the other.
She identified the two as Palestinian residents of Hebron, adding that they were between 17 and 20 years old.
After contradictory reports earlier in the day, al-Samri said that a border police officer sustained a light wound on his hand during the altercation.
A spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent said that one of their ambulances was "denied access" to the scene.
The slain youth is the 228th Palestinian to be killed by Israelis since the beginning of a wave of unrest nearly a year ago across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.
Rights groups have repeatedly denounced what they have termed Israeli forces' "shoot-to-kill" policy against Palestinians who did not constitute a threat at the time of their death or who could have been subdued in a non-lethal manner.
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19 September 2016 - 13:28
News ID: 780097
One Palestinian was killed and another was critically wounded by Israeli forces after allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Monday afternoon, Israeli police said.
