A few days ago I read this article:
The officer, Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, was critically wounded in the attack, and evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center along with another officer who was moderately wounded. She was pronounced dead several hours later.
According to police, the assailant, a 16-year-old from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, ran towards the police force with a knife in his hand, and stabbed Lubin several times. Her fellow officers shot and killed him. Lubin may have also been struck by the officers’ gunfire.
Shortly after the attack, security forces arrested a student at a school nearby, whom they suspect of assisting the attacker. They also arrested several members of the assailant’s family on suspicion of aiding him. Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the scene of the attack. Ben-Gvir told reporters that the two are working to demolish the assailant’s family home as soon as possible.
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Border Police officer killed in J’lem attack
Haaretz - English Edition 7 Nov 2023 Yael Freidson and Nir Hasson
Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin
A female Border Police officer was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old Palestinian boy near Herod’s Gate in East Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday.
The officer, Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, was critically wounded in the attack, and evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center along with another officer who was moderately wounded. She was pronounced dead several hours later.
The Atlanta Jewish Times reported that Lubin was a new immigrant and a lone soldier from Dunwoody, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. She had moved to Israel in 2021. She lived on Kibbutz Sa’ad, a religious kibbutz in the Negev, according to the news outlet’s website.
According to police, the assailant, a 16-year-old from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, ran towards the police force with a knife in his hand, and stabbed Lubin several times. Her fellow officers shot and killed him. Lubin may have also been struck by the officers’ gunfire.
Shortly after the attack, security forces arrested a student at a school nearby, whom they suspect of assisting the attacker. They also arrested several members of the assailant’s family on suspicion of aiding him. Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the scene of the attack. Ben-Gvir told reporters that the two are working to demolish the assailant’s family home as soon as possible.
The attack comes amid rising tensions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza. Also on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that three Palestinians had been killed and one severely wounded by Israeli security forces fire in Tul Karm. Two of the dead belonged to Palestinian armed factions.
I thought the detail about friendly fire was interesting, wouldn't be the first time that trigger-happy cops made everything much worse. But the whole thing about implicating the entire family and demolishing their house? Obviously disgusting but surely it's not common? Right?
Then earlier today I saw this from Amnesty International from August. This is a case from February where a 13 year old boy stabbed a police officer. A private security guard then tried to shoot the boy, and instead shot and killed the police officer. The boy was charged with murder. And his family's house? Demolished.