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A 14-year-old Palestinian girl was arrested on suspicion of carrying out a stabbing attack on an Israeli woman who was walking with her five young children on Wednesday.
The victim was stabbed in the back and lightly wounded at the entrance to the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem in a suspected terror attack, police said. It is the fourth lone wolf attack in Jerusalem in three weeks amid fears of a new wave of violence.
Police officers arrested the suspect a short time later at her neighbourhood school. Her father and mother were also detained for interrogation, as well as another student, a teacher, and the school’s principal.
Police said the suspect is a member of a well-known local family, whose home, like many in Sheikh Jarrah, is embroiled in a court battle with Jewish groups who have contested the property’s ownership.
The victim, Moriah Cohen, 26, are among the few Jewish residents of Sheikh Jarrah. Her husband Dvir Cohen said: “The stabber is our neighbour. She lives right in front of us. She followed her, got close to her, then stabbed her”.
He added that 11 molotov cocktails have been thrown at the Cohens’ house and that they hid their menorahs during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. On Monday, a 16-year-old Palestinian attempted to hit soldiers with his car at a West Bank checkpoint and was fatally shot at the scene, authorities said.
On Saturday, a 25-year-old Palestinian man stabbed an ultra-Orthodox man in the neck and upper body.
