Palestinian in Jerusalem police station attack dies of wounds

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A Palestinian teenager who last week attacked Israeli occupation forces at a precinct in the occupied city of Jerusalem before being shot died of his wounds on Tuesday, Shaare Zedek Hospital said in a statement.

Official Palestinian news agency WAFA named him as Abdul Rahman Abu Jamal, 17, from Jabel Mukaber, a Palestinian neighbourhood adjacent to the settler district of Armon Hanatziv.

Abu Jamal was seriously wounded as he was overpowered by officers during the rare attack inside a security force base late on November 14 after scaling a fence around it.

Seven Israeli forces were lightly wounded in the attack, one of them by friendly fire.

A wave of stabbing attacks against by lone-wolf Palestinians erupted in 2015 but they have since become sporadic.

Israeli forces occupied east Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.