Police nab suspect in last week’s East Jerusalem attack
A-Tur resident believed to have stabbed seminary student with a ‘sharpened wooden plank’ outside grocery store
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A Palestinian teenager was arrested in connection with Thursday’s stabbing attack in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, the Shin Bet security agency announced Wednesday.
The suspect has been identified by police as 19-year-old Ahmad Na’im A’shayer, a resident of A-Tur. He is also suspected of hurling firebombs and firecrackers at security services on April 15, the Shin Bet said.
On August 11, the Jewish teenager was attacked at a grocery store near the Mount of Olives cemetery. His attacker approached him bare-handed, but picked up a “sharpened wooden plank” that was on the ground nearby, stabbing the teenager with it, police said.
The injured teenager flagged down a vehicle and traveled to a nearby Border Police station. The officers quickly called the Magen David Adom rescue service and launched a search for the perpetrator.
On Tuesday, police arrested A’shayer and have requested of the courts that he be kept in remand for at least the next eight days.
The victim, who was reportedly a Jewish seminary student, was taken to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, but has since been released.
Since October, 35 Israelis and four foreign nationals have been killed in a wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks. At least 214 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the same period, some two-thirds of them while carrying out attacks against Israelis, and the rest during clashes with troops, mostly in the West Bank, the IDF says.
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