Stop in Jerusalem is thwarted?

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Stop in Jerusalem is thwarted?

With knives and firearms attacked Palestinians, Israeli security forces and were then killed. This was the view of the police prevented the worst. The attacker also had explosive devices.

In Jerusalem, the police according to own data a serious attempt to thwart. It was at the Damaskustor close to the old city of Jerusalem, a servant killed and another injured. Three Palestinians had the Grenzpolizistinnen with knives and firearms attacked. As police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told, were the men with pipe bombs were armed by other security officers shot dead.

Harder to stop planned?

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri told the officers the behaviour of the group suspicious happened. As the identity card of one of the three Palestinians, controlled, had the other two with rifles and knives attacked. The men had evidently a heavier stop is planned, added the spokeswoman, while referring to the detected explosive devices. The Review of the papers of the slain attackers had shown, that the three 19 and 20 year old men from the vicinity of Dschenin in the North of the West Bank were reported Samri.

Since October have been in the case of politically motivated acts of violence 26 Israelis and 164 Palestinians were killed. The attack on the two police officers was the most tragic, since in December in an attack at the Jaffa gate in Jerusalem, two Israelis died. One was of two Palestinians stabbed to death, the other by a stray police bullet fatally wounded.

Dangerous “Terror Tunnel”

Meanwhile, came the collapse of a tunnel in Chan June in the southern Gaza strip, two Palestinian militants were killed. The Palestinians organization Hamas confirmed it was members of their armed Arms traded. The men aged 23 and 35 years were excavations have been busy, as the Tunnel collapsed, said the Hamas.

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nin/kle (dpa, ape, afp, kna)