Israeli forces are tracking a Palestinian man suspected of killing an Israeli soldier the day before in an armed attack in East Jerusalem on Sunday, amid an upsurge in violence in recent months.
Soldier Noa Lazar, 18, who served in the military police, died of gunshot wounds inflicted in the attack on Saturday evening at Shuafat checkpoint, a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, an area occupied and annexed by Israel.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid promised on Sunday "
to bring those responsible for this heinous crime to justice
".
“
Terrorism will not win, we are strong despite this difficult evening
,” he added as the funeral of the young woman is scheduled for Monday evening after the start of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Another 30-year-old Israeli man was shot and seriously injured in the head in the attack and was taken to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, the facility said.
Two border police officers were slightly injured by "
shrapnel
", according to the police.
According to Israeli police, the perpetrator of the attack is a 22-year-old Palestinian living in East Jerusalem.
He was driven by an accomplice to the checkpoint and opened fire on officers on duty before fleeing to the camp.
After a night of tension in Jerusalem, Israeli police on Sunday arrested four Palestinians suspected
of "involvement in the attack
" and whose detention has been extended for a week.
Israeli forces have blocked access to the camp, where they are continuing to track down the suspect despite stones being thrown at them by young Palestinians, according to witnesses and police who said they were using "
riot weapons
".
Multiplication of voltages
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its rescuers were blocked by Israeli security forces from accessing the area.
The Israeli human rights organization HaMoked urged the authorities to let residents of the neighborhood "
who have to go to their homes, work, school or hospital
" circulate.
Earlier Saturday, two Palestinian teenagers identified as Ahmad Daraghmeh, 16, and Mahmoud al-Sousse, 18, were shot and killed in a new Israeli army raid in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed factions in the northern occupied West Bank, where soldiers were trying to apprehend a suspected member of the Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian group.
After deadly anti-Israeli attacks last March and April, the army stepped up operations and arrests in the West Bank -- Palestinian territory occupied by the Jewish state since 1967 --, especially in the areas of Jenin and Nablus.
These Israeli raids, often interspersed with clashes with the Palestinian population, left more than a hundred dead on the Palestinian side, the heaviest toll in the West Bank for nearly seven years, according to the UN.
"
I am alarmed by the deterioration of the security situation and the intensification of armed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank
" and in East Jerusalem, the UN envoy for the Middle East commented on Saturday. , Tor Wennesland.
Faced with violence in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas called on the United States to "
increase the pressure on Israel so that it ceases its total war against the Palestinian people
".
Israeli operations "
will lead to an explosion and a point of no return, which will have devastating consequences for all
", warned Nabil Abou Roudeina, spokesman for President Abbas.
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