Police arrest Palestinian carrying a knife

Border Police officers at the Abu Dis checkpoint east of Jerusalem arrest a Palestinian man bearing a knife.

Police say in a statement that while examining passengers in a van headed from the northern to the southern West Bank, officers found that one of the passengers wasn’t carrying identification papers.

When they asked him for his identity, he provided the identifying information of another person, police say. They then found the knife on his person.

In a statement, police say he is being questioned in order to ascertain his identity and motive.

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