Israeli police announced on Wednesday that they will file indictments against two individuals suspected of involvement in the killing of a 23-year-old Israeli border policewoman in a coordinated shooting and stabbing attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City in June.
Hadas Malka was on patrol outside Jerusalem's Damascus Gate when she was critically injured in a stabbing and shooting attack on Israeli security forces.
According to police, two Palestinian perpetrators opened fire at a group of police officers who returned fire, and a third stabbed Malka, who fought her attacker for several seconds while trying to draw her weapon.
Malka was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died of her wounds. All three assailants were shot dead by security forces at the scene.
Inciting materials found at the West Bank home of a Palestinian terrorist who participated in the June 16, 2017 stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate that killed Border Police staff sergeant Hadas Malka, in the village of Deir Abu Mashal near Ramal
After the attack, two suspects - one from East Jerusalem and the second from the West Bank - were arrested for transporting the attackers as part of a group to Jerusalem the day before the attack.
Both Hamas and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place as Muslims marked the end of the third Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, during which tens of thousands of Palestinians from east Jerusalem and the West Bank attended prayers at the nearby Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site.
The Israel Defense Forces said the attackers were part of a local terror network and there was no indication that they were affiliated with either Hamas or the Islamic State militant groups.
