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Islamic State claims its first attack in Israel, one police officer killed

By Joshua Mitnick, Los Angeles Times
Published: June 17, 2017, 7:33pm

TEL AVIV, Israel — Palestinian militants launched an attack with guns and knives near Jerusalem’s Old City Friday, killing a border policewoman and wounding three other people in the first attack in Israel or the West Bank claimed by Islamic State.

Hours after the attack, the group announced that “soldiers of the caliphate” had launched the “blessed operation . on a gathering of Jews,” and said it would attack again.

Hamas rejected the Islamic State claim and said one of the attackers belonged to Hamas and two others to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Israeli military also challenged Islamic State’s claim. On Saturday, an Israeli officer said the army believes the attackers were a “local” organization.

Hearing reports on a police radio of gunfire, a group of Israeli border police was preparing to respond when an assailant began stabbing Staff Sgt. Maj. Hadas Malka repeatedly, authorities said. The officer was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Israeli police said they killed three Palestinians involved in the attack. The attackers were identified by Israeli security services as residents of the West Bank.

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