Dubai: A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli guard at a key security post between the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem on Monday before being arrested, Israeli police claimed.
A police statement said Asia Kaabneh, a 39-year-old mother of nine from the occupied West Bank, stabbed a guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint, injuring her lightly.
The guard was taken to hospital while Kaabneh was arrested. In custody she has allegedly admitted to having planned the attack.
Since October 2015, Israel and the Palestinian territories have been rocked by a wave of violence due to an uptick in Jewish raids on Al Haram Al Sharif.
Palestinians fear that the decades-old status quo at the holy shrine of Al Haram Al Sharif in occupied East Jerusalem will be shattered by far right Jewish groups, which advocate for Jewish worshipping rights.
Jews are allowed to visit the shrine, but are strictly banned from praying there. Israel captured and annexed the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967, but the move has never been recognised by the international community.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 305 Palestinians have been killed, 63 of them from occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel often shoots Palestinians dead under the pretext that they are ‘attackers’.
However, Israeli extrajudicial killings have been widely documented where the regime soldiers shoot dead Palestinians posing no threat to them and then frame them later by placing weapons on their body.
The United Nations has condemned these executions.
