Israeli soldier shoots settler after alleged stabbing

A 19-year-old Israeli settler was shot dead by Israeli forces today after he allegedly attempted to carry out a knife attack against Israeli soldiers on the occupied East Jerusalem side of Israel’s Hizma checkpoint, which leads to the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli police.

said in an initial statement that a Palestinian attempted to cross “from Jerusalem to Palestinian lands” and “apparently attempted to stab a security officer” at the military checkpoint.

Israeli forces noticed the man approaching and “immediately neutralised him without any injuries being reported among them”, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Al-Samri said. She said he was “apparently attempted to stab a security officer” at the military checkpoint. No Israeli security guards were injured in the alleged attack.

Al-Samri said the man had succumbed to his wounds.

However, Israeli police later revealed that the man was a 19-year-old Jewish Israeli from the illegal Pisgat Zeev settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, which is adjacent to the Hizma checkpoint.

In a statement, Al-Samri later said the man “was carrying an object in his hand. Forces noticed him and feeling that they were in real danger, they immediately started procedures to arrest him, ultimately neutralising him and seizing a knife that he was carrying.”

Al-Samri released a photo of a pocket knife purportedly found on the young man.