ISIS claim responsibility for its first attack in Jerusalem: Terror cell say they were behind shooting and stabbing of Israeli policewoman
Policewoman Hadas Malka, 23, was fatally stabbed in Jerusalem, Israel, on Friday
She went to hospital but died from her injuries and ISIS claimed responsibility
It is the first time that the Islamic State has said it was behind an attack in the city
By ABE HAWKEN
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 June 2017
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a shooting and stabbing terror attack which resulted in the death of an Israeli policewoman.
Hadas Malka, 23, a staff sergeant major, was fatally stabbed in Jerusalem and it is the first time ISIS has said it was behind an attack in the city.
But the claim, which came with the jihadists facing defeat in their Iraq and Syria bastions, was swiftly dismissed by Palestinian militant groups.
Israeli police said three Palestinians attacked officers at Damascus Gate in annexed east Jerusalem late on Friday before being shot dead by security forces.
In an online statement, IS said jihadist fighters had targeted a ‘gathering of Jews’, warning that ‘this attack will not be the last’.
But Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, dismissed the claim.
It said the attackers had come from among its own ranks and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The assault took place as tens of thousands of Palestinians held night prayers at the nearby Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, on the third Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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