Israel to release body of Palestinian who stabbed 2 Israeli soldiers
Published yesterday (updated) 13/04/2015 15:40
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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Palestinian
Liaison announced that Israeli authorities will on Sunday release the body
of Muhammad Jasser Karakra, who was shot dead after he stabbed two Israeli
soldiers.

Karakra, 27, was killed on Wednesday after stabbing two soldiers at the
Sinjil junction near the Shilo settlement, north of Ramallah.

Israeli forces subsequently held his body, which they sent to an Israeli
forensic institute in Tel Aviv.

Karakra's family said that his funeral will take place on Monday, following
noon prayers, when the body is received from the Palestine Medical Complex
in Ramallah.

One of the Israeli soldiers, 20, was critically injured after being stabbed
in the neck. The other received minor injuries and then opened fire at
Karakra, who sustained critical injuries before being pronounced dead.

Israeli army forces and ambulances afterwards arrived at the scene and gave
first aid to the soldiers, who were taken in a helicopter to hospital for
treatment.

Locals told Ma'an that Israeli forces also raided several areas surrounding
Ramallah including Sinjil, Turmusayya, al-Luban al-Sharqiya, and al-Luban
al-Gharbiya.

Israeli forces detained seven Palestinian youths and took them to identify
the suspect's body, but none were able to identify him, witnesses said.

Some of the youths taken to identify the body said the suspect was injured
with a bullet in the head, and that there was a "clean knife with no blood
on it" next to him.

The Palestinian Liaison later identified Karakra.

The attack came less than a week after an Israeli soldier was stabbed near
the Oranit checkpoint in southern Qalqiliya, receiving light wounds.

That attack was the first on Israeli military or civilians since early March
when a Palestinian man drove his vehicle into a group of border police
standing in front of an Israeli border police station between East and West
Jerusalem, striking five people.

In the same time period, Israeli forces had shot and killed two Palestinians
and injured around 170 Palestinians, the majority during attacks on protests
as well as during raids, according to the United Nations.

The figure does not include attacks by Israeli settlers.