{"id":58306,"date":"2022-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/09\/24\/israeli-officer-kills-palestinian-suspected-of-stabbing-attack\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T00:00:00","slug":"israeli-officer-kills-palestinian-suspected-of-stabbing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/09\/24\/israeli-officer-kills-palestinian-suspected-of-stabbing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli officer kills Palestinian suspected of stabbing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;An Israeli officer killed a Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack at a traffic junction between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Thursday, Israeli police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected assailant got out of his car at a traffic light near the city of Modi&#39;in in Israel, which borders the occupied West Bank, and began stabbing and firing pepper spray at passengers in nearby cars, Israeli police said.<\/p>\n<p>A border police officer in plain clothes who was driving in the area saw the attack and fired several shots at the suspect, killing him, police added.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics at the scene treated eight people who sustained light wounds, five from pepper spray and three from superficial cuts, the Israeli Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Hamas praised Thursday night&#39;s attack, the latest in a string of deadly incidents that have stoked fears of an escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Since January, at least 90 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces. Israel intensified its raids in the spring following a spate of lethal street attacks by Palestinians that killed 18 people.<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0An Israeli officer killed a Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack at a traffic junction between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Thursday, Israeli police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}