JERUSALEM - A Palestinian teenager stabbed and wounded an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
In his investigation, the boy told police he staged the attack on Jerusalem's Jaffa street because he was not paid by the bakery where he worked and was scared of his father. The officer was on duty to secure a parade that has taken place on the road at the time.
The victim was evacuated to hospital after the incident in moderate condition. Police forces apprehended the assailant shortly after he fled the scene and are still looking into the circumstances of the attack.
The 15-year-old resident of the West Bank refugee camp Shuafat, located near east Jerusalem, said he was at an Old City mosque before
the incident, and later returned to downtown Jerusalem in order to stab a Jew.
Israel to indict terrorists
Police and military forces have in recent weeks arrested three Palestinian terrorists from the West Bank who are suspected of stabbing a 70-year-old Israeli five months ago. The men belong to the Popular Resistance Committees, a group made up of former members from other terrorist groups.
Israel plans to indict the suspects in the coming days.
All three men had worked in Jerusalem in the past. Palestinians are legally allowed to work in Jerusalem if the Israeli government recognizes them as residents of east Jerusalem
The three told investigators they had planned to murder a Jew because they were jobless. They also said they planned to stab a soldier in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood and then flee the scene.
“We were desperate and decided to carry out an attack against Jews,” they said.
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