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Israeli medics move a handcuffed Palestinian woman, who police believe attacked a man, at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. Credit: AP
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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot two Palestinian teenage girls, killing one and wounding the other, after they were allegedly involved in a stabbing attack near a central Jerusalem market on Monday morning, Israeli police said.

Israeli media initially reported that two Israelis were wounded in the alleged attack, although a spokesperson for Hadassah hospital later confirmed that one of those injured was a 70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem, who had a light stabbing wound in his back.
The other was a 27-year-old Israeli security guard who was shot in the hand by friendly fire.

An Israeli security guard, who had been driving near the Mahane Yehuda market on Jaffa Street, got out of his car when he saw the two girls and quickly shot dead 16-year-old Hadeel Wajih Awwad and severely wounded her cousin, 14-year-old Norhan Awwad.
Video footage showed both girls running at the security officer, apparently waving scissors, before the security guard and another Israeli managed to knock the girls to the ground.

Once on the ground, the security guard ran forward and shot each of them several times.

The video footage did not show the preceding circumstances in which the 70-year-old Palestinian was injured.

Hadeel Awwad died almost immediately, while her cousin was evacuated to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, where a spokesperson said that she had been taken into the operating room in serious condition, with two bullet wounds in her stomach.

Hadeel came from Qalandiya refugee camp. Her brother, Mahmoud Awwad, reportedly died in 2013, several months after he was shot and injured during clashes with Israeli troops inside the refugee camp.
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by Gili Cohen and Yair Ettinger for Haaretz

Two female Palestinian teens stabbed a man near a central outdoor market in Jerusalem with scissors on Monday. The victim was identified by the police as an elderly Palestinian man. Another man was wounded while trying to stop the attack.

The two Palestinians identified as the assailants, aged 14 and 16, were shot by a police officer while trying to stab others near Mahne Yehuda market. One of them was killed and the second suffered serious wounds and was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem.

Police said that the police officer, who was in the market at the time, shot the assailants after they refused to heed his calls to stop and drop their weapon and instead continued to move toward him.

The victim of the stabbing, a man in his 70s who suffered light injuries to his upper body, was a Palestinian man from the West Bank who was apparently mistook for as Israeli.

In a separate incident, there were reports of a man being run over in the northern West Bank in a possible car-ramming attack. The man sustained light injuries after being hit by a car near the former settlement of Homesh. Police said they were trying to determine the nature of the incident.

Earlier Monday, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open area in southern Israel, failing to cause either damage or casualties.

A 21-year-old woman who was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack in the Gush Etzion region in the West Bank on Sunday has died of her wounds. The victim was identified as Hadar Buchris, from Safed.
 
Israeli army soldiers shot and killed the assailant, who the Shin Bet security service identified as 34-year-old Isam Thwabteh from Beit Fajar, a village near Bethlehem. Thwabteh had no previous record of security-related offences.