Islamic State claim of Jerusalem attack denied by Palestinian militant groups

On Saturday, 17th June 2017, Palestinian militant factions had denied a claim by the Islamic State that three Palestinian men who had carried out a fatal shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem were members of the militant group.

The Islamic State had taken responsibility for the attack which occurred on Friday, 16th June 2017,the attack resulted in the death of a policeman and injured another one according to IS’s Amaq news agency.

Israel’s security forces did not make any comments in what is being described as the first attack on Israel’s soil by Islamic State.

Conversely, a senior official from Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said that the three attackers, who were all shot dead at the scene, were their own members.

The three hero martyrs who executed the Jerusalem operation have no connection to Daesh (Islamic State), they are affiliated with the PFLP and Hamas,” Hamas’ Izzat El-Reshiq wrote on Twitter.

The PFLP also published a separate statement in which they identified two of the three attackers as members. “The media office of the PFLP armed wing mourns two of its hero comrades, two freed prisoners

On the other hand Israeli police said on Friday, 16th June 2017,  all the assailants were from Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank. Two of the attackers, both of whom from Ramallah, were between the ages of 18 and 19 and the third was a 30 year old from Hebron, police spokeswoman Luba Simri said.

The assaults took place simultaneously in two areas near the Damascus gate of Jerusalem’s walled old city.

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