Palestinian teen stabber shot by police dies of injuries

The Palestinian teen who injured four police officers in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem last week has died of his injuries sustained in the assault.

The official Palestinian Authority news outlet Wafa identifies the attacker as 17-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Abu Jamal from East Jerusalem.

Police said Jamal stabbed and lightly injured three officers last Wednesday night at a police station the in Jerusalem’s Armon HaNatziv neighborhood, before he was shot. A fourth officer was injured while arresting him.

Jamal was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital with serious injuries.

The Armon HaNatziv neighborhood, some of which is in former no-man’s land between East and West Jerusalem, has been the scene of several attacks in past years, including during a wave of stabbings in 2015 and 2016.