The attacks occurred simultaneously in two areas near the Damascus gate of Jerusalem's walled old city. "3 Arab terrorists shot by police units that responded at the scene".
A family member of one of the three flatly rejected any connection to IS, angrily telling AFP the militant group's claim was a "lie" that didn't deserve mention. Maqdisi is an Arabic term for a Palestinian Jerusalemite.
A statement issued by its Amaq news agency said: "Let the Jews expect the demise of their entity at the hands of the Caliphate soldiers". The move previous year was decried by rights groups as a form of collective punishment.
Moments before being attacked, Malka, 23, sent a smiling selfie to her close friends to wish them a good Shabbat.
The police and the soldiers fired many live rounds, killing the three Palestinians, and wounding two Palestinian bystanders; one suffered a moderate injury, and the other was mildly wounded.
But Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, dismissed the claim, saying the attackers had come from among its own ranks and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
An Israeli police officer has been seriously injured in what initial reports suggest was a coordinated attack by three Palestinians at two locations just outside Jerusalem's Old City.
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While Mr Tillerson has been speaking to all parties, Ms Nauert said the U.S. wasn't planning to play a formal mediation role. Videos posted on social media show large flocks of camels crossing the border with Saudi Arabia, wandering in the desert.
In addition to Trump Jr, PM Benjamin Netanyahu was also miffed and requested that Yuval Rotem, the Director General of the MFA, as well as the Israeli Embassy in London, act to have the BBC acknowledge that the headline was misleading. He said it was a move to "confuse the media and distort the reputation of the Palestinian resistance".
So I want to turn your attention to on another aspect of this story: the reactions of the terrorist organizations, who clamored over each other to take responsibility for the terror attack.
It identified two of the men as Bra'a Salah and Asama Atta, born in 1998, and the third as Adel Ankush, born in 1999. All of the terrorists were from the village of Deir Abu-Mashal, a village near Ramallah and had been previously arrested for security related offenses.
Israeli figures pointed the blame at Palestinian leaders. IS "claims that it carried out the attack are meant to shuffle the cards". "ISIS's claims are false, although one of the suspects may have been affiliated with Hamas".
Instead, an obscure Palestinian group known as the "Groups of Martyr Baha Eleyan" claimed responsibility.
A police official said on Sunday that the discussions on if or how the security procedures around the busy Old City entrance would change were being held with "consultation from high-level political leadership". Jihadi groups, including ISIS and al-Qaida, see Israel as an illegitimate state and a prime adversary.
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