Shin Bet names Damascus Gate attacker

The Shin Bet names the Palestinian who was shot dead trying to stab security forces at the Damascus Gate earlier today as Bassem Sadr, aged 19, from the West Bank city of Hebron.

He was not previously known to the Israeli security forces, the service says.

— Judah Ari Gross

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