al-Quds Stabbing Natural Response to "Israeli" Aggression

Source: Al-Manar TV, 24-10-2008

Following the stabbing of an ‘Israeli' and a policeman by a Palestinian in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday, Hamas said such attacks were a "natural response" to ‘Israel's' continued aggression.

The attacker, 20-year-old Mohammed al-Badan, was shot and disarmed during the attack.

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas added that the attack came as a direct response to ‘Israeli' moves to make occupied Jerusalem more Zionist.

‘Israeli' police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two police officers on patrol in Gilo had stopped an Arab for questioning on the street when he pulled out a knife and stabbed one of them. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the stabbing.

The ‘Israeli' occupation army forces later searched the occupied West Bank home of the attacker in the village of Tekoa, near Bethlehem. Witnesses said two of al-Badan's friends were taken away in military jeeps.

Witnesses said about 100 local teenagers hurled rocks at the occupation soldiers, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Palestinian medics said three Palestinians were injured.