AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s police arrested a Palestinian teenage girl they claimed was hiding in a school after a retaliatory stabbing Wednesday in a tense neighborhood of annexed east Al-Quds.
“In the last few minutes, police forces arrested a suspect, a minor, who was located by the police inside an educational institution near the scene of the incident,” police said.
The victim, 26, was taken to hospital after the knife attack on the road into the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and was being treated for “mild” injuries, police said.
Sheikh Jarrah has been hit by waves of unrest linked to the Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
The neighborhood is home to at least seven Palestinian families who have been waiting for a ruling by the occupying regime on whether they must surrender their homes to Zionist settlers in a case that exploded into armed conflict in and around Gaza in May.
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas hailed the attack on Zionists.
“The heroic actions in the West Bank and Al-Quds, the most recent of which was the stabbing of a settler in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, prove the greatness of our people whose resistance cannot be broken,” Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanoo said.
He added, “Our people in the West Bank and Al-Quds are in an open battle with the occupation. They will pursue invaders and herds of settlers, anywhere and by all available means, until they leave our lands.”
On Monday morning, Zionist troops shot and killed a Palestinian minor, who has been identified as 16-year-old Mohammad Nidal Younis from the village of Kufr Qalil in Nablus.
The teenager rammed a car into a military checkpoint near the occupied central West Bank city of Tulkarem, seriously injuring a Zionist guard.
Palestinian resistance groups praised the operation in Tulkarem as a natural response to the regime’s continuing crimes against Palestinians.
“The day for revolutionary nations has started with a manifestation of salvation and resistance. A sacrificial operation was carried out against [Zionist] occupying forces in the early hours of today near Tulkarem in the West Bank,” Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesman, said.
He added, “This is a passionate revolution, and Palestinian youths have decided to free themselves from the yoke of occupation. They will continue to show great creativity in their resistance until the entire Palestinian lands are liberated from the grip of the Zionist colonization.”