Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces shot a Palestinian youth at a crossroads in the suburb of Tel Piot in the southern suburbs of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of stabbing an Israeli settler.

The Israeli police said that its members who arrived at the scene shot the Palestinian young man and neutralized him, indicating that his injury was critical.

She added that the Israeli who was stabbed suffered minor injuries.

The Israeli occupation forces sent security reinforcements to the site and closed the area.

The past year witnessed stabbings and shootings carried out by Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and in other cities in the West Bank, which resulted in Israeli deaths and injuries. The Palestinian resistance factions blessed these operations and considered them a response to the Israeli attacks.