Assailant shot her while at a checkpoint in Suafat – Suspect identified and wanted
Israeli security forces have launched a manhunt to locate one Palestinian who allegedly shot and killed an Israeli soldier on Saturday night in East Jerusalemagainst the background of the resurgence of violence in recent months.
Trooper Noah Lazar, 18, who served in the military, succumbed to his injuries. The gunman shot her while she was at a checkpoint in Shuafat, a Palestinian refugee camp in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem.
His prime minister Israel Yair Lapid pledged that “those responsible for this heinous crime” will be brought to justice. “Terror will not win, we are strong despite this difficult night,” he added.
The funeral of the young woman will take place on Monday evening, after the great Jewish holiday of Tabernacles begins.
In the same attack a 30-year-old Israeli man was seriously injured in the head who is being treated at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Two border guards were slightly injured by shrapnel, police said.
The perpetrator, according to the police authorities, is a 22-year-old Palestinian, a resident of East Jerusalem. He was taken by car by an accomplice to the outpost, where he opened fire on the soldiers and then fled towards the camp.
After a night of tension in Jerusalem, Israeli police today arrested four Palestinians allegedly “involved in the attack”. Their detention was extended for one week. Access to the camp has also been blocked, where investigations continue to identify the suspect. Young Palestinians threw stones at the police, according to witnesses.
The chief of the Israeli army Aviv Kohavi he went to the outskirts of the camp to encourage the soldiers.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its rescuers were prevented by Israeli security forces from entering the sector. Also, the Israeli human rights group HaMoked called on the authorities to allow residents of the neighborhood to move around “to go to their homes, to work, to school or to the hospital.”
Earlier on Saturday, two Palestinian teenagers, Ahmad Daraghmeh, 16, and Mahmoud al-Shous, 18, were shot dead during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, where soldiers were trying to arrest a member of Islamic Jihad.
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