Palestinian shot dead near Jerusalem

Israeli security officials shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday near Jerusalem’s Old City, a police spokeswoman said.
“Police officers spotted a man who aroused their suspicions and approached him to check,” she said. “The terrorist pulled out a knife and tried to stab the policeman and was quickly killed by police gunfire.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry in the occupied West Bank indicated that the dead man was a Palestinian whose identity was not yet known.
A wave of violence since the start of October has claimed the lives of 132 people on the Palestinian side, 19 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.
Many of the Palestinians killed have been attackers while others have been shot dead by Israeli security forces during clashes.
On Friday, Israeli border guards shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to ram a car into them in the West Bank, shortly after a Palestinian was killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border with the Gaza Strip.
A number of Palestinians have attempted attacks with kitchen knives.
Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, used his traditional Christmas Day address to urge Israelis and Palestinians to resume “direct dialogue,” saying the conflict had “serious repercussions” on the Middle East.
Soure: Arab News