Itongadol.- An army spokeswoman confirmed that security forces were carrying out arrest operations in Jenin, and that an exchange of fire developed in the West Bank city.
The army said no further details are available at this time.
Earlier in the week, an axe-wielding Palestinian man approached a group of Border Police officers near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem\’s Old City, yelling and attacking the security forces.
While the officers worked to neutralize the suspect, he managed to stab one Border Police officer and lightly wound him in the leg.
Security forces arrested the suspect.
The attack was the latest in a series of terrorist acts carried out against members of the security forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank over the last month.
On August 17, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed and lightly wounded a Border Police officer at the Tapuah junction.
The Border Police said the assailant approached the officers at the checkpoint and told them he was not feeling well. The officers told the man to halt, but he continued to approach them, then pulled out a knife and stabbed an officer, lightly wounding him. The statement said the officer managed to push away the attacker and his partner opened fire, critically wounding the terrorist.
The attacker was treated at the scene by IDF medics, but died of his wounds, the army confirmed.
Two days prior to that attack, a Palestinian man lightly wounded a Border Police officer at a checkpoint on the highway near the Palestinian village of Huwara. The attacker was shot and killed by other border policemen at the scene.
On the same day, a Palestinian terrorist asked a soldier for a cup of water at a checkpoint on Highway 443 near Beit Horon, and then stabbed the soldier after he turned his back, lightly wounding him.