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Copyright: Picture taken by Justin McIntosh [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
A 16 year-old Palestinian Arab student was shot and killed this morning (Israel time) when she rushed towards an Israeli soldier at the a-Zaim checkpoint near Jerusalem with a knife in her hand and her school backpack still on her. A civilian security guard present at the scene noticed the attack, drew his side arm, and killed the attacker. There were no casualties among Israeli security at the scene. The police chief for the District of Jerusalem, Deputy Commissioner Yoram Halevy arrived at the scene for initial crime scene evaluation.