Shots fired at soldiers at north Jerusalem checkpoint
No Israeli injuries reported in shooting incident; IDF soldier killed in stabbing attack hours earlier
Palestinian gunmen Monday night opened fire at Israeli security personnel at a military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Border Police officers manning the Qalandiya checkpoint were uninjured in the incident, and returned fire towards the shooters, according to the Israel Police.
It was unclear if there were any Palestinian casualties.
The Qalandiya checkpoint is a frequent flash point for clashes between IDF forces and Palestinian protesters.
Monday saw two separate attacks carried out by Palestinian assailants against Israelis.
Outside a West Bank gas station on Route 443, 18-year-old IDF soldier Ziv Mizrahi was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian from the West Bank village of Katana.
Magen David Adom paramedics attempted to revive Mizrahi, who was an IDF driver, but a spokesman said first responders were forced to pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police identified Ahmad Taha as the assailant. He was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in the area.
Another woman was lightly hurt when her car was hit by gunfire from security forces trying to thwart the attack.
Hours before, two teenage Palestinian girls armed with scissors injured an elderly Palestinian they mistook for an Israeli Jew in a stabbing terror attack near Jerusalem’s busy Mahane Yehuda market.
Police later identified the two attackers as cousins Hadil and Nurhan Awad, aged 14 and 16, from Qalandiya.
Sixteen-year-old Hadil died at the scene and 14-year-old Nurhan was badly hurt and detained, a police spokesperson said.