Quote: "A Palestinian resident of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was reportedly killed after he allegedly killed an Israeli settler and wounded a policeman in the Israeli settlement of Gilo near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem."

1. Palestinian terrorist is not dead
2. He infiltrated Israel from the West Bank
3. The Israeli he murdered was 86 years old
4. He was not a "settler" but an Israeli living in Israel
5. Gilo is not a "settlement" "near Bethlehem" but part of the municipality of Jerusalem, annexed by Israel after the Six Days' War

Terrorist kills man, wounds cop in J'lem
Oct. 23, 2008
jpost.com staff and judy siegel , THE JERUSALEM POST

86-year-old Avraham Ozeri was killed and a police officer was moderately wounded Thursday morning when they were stabbed near a school on Vardinon Street in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood by a young Palestinian terrorist.

Police said that the assailant, 21-year-old Mohammad el-Badan, from a village near Bethlehem, was stopped for inspection by a pair of officers, a man and a woman, when he pulled out a large knife and attacked the man.

He then tried to escaped and while fleeing the scene stabbed the elderly man in the chest.

The officer, despite suffering stab wounds, managed to shoot the assailant several times and hit him in the abdomen.

Yoav Mizrahi, a passerby who caught the assailant, told Army Radio: "He was shot, but he kept running. After a while he got tired and I caught up with him. I ran after him and caught him, wrestled him to the ground and twisted his arm behind his back."

The civilian was evacuated in critical condition to the Shaare Tzedek Hospital, where he died of his wounds. The policeman and the attacker were evacuated to Hadassah University Medical Center, Ein Kerem.

The policeman was in moderate-to-serious condition after he underwent a two-hour operation. But hospital director Dr. Yuval Weiss predicted that the policeman, Ethiopian immigrant Daniel Motza, would be able to function normally and perhaps be discharged in a week or so if there are no complications.

The heroic policeman, who was stabbed in his chest and stomach but still managed to shoot the terrorist, was operated on by a medical team headed by Prof. Avi Rivkind, head of the surgical branch and trauma unit. He was taken to intensive care and is being ventilated. "He will recover," said Weiss. "We believe he will be in much better condition tomorrow."

Public Security Minister Avi Ditcher visited the policeman in hospital and hailed his courage which, he said, certainly contributed to the terrorist's arrest and reduced the further harm he could have caused.

"He is a really strong young man, and this really helps with his medical treatment," Ditcher told reporters outside the hospital. "When you see Daniel, you really see how in spite of the severe wounds he sustained, he managed to fire at the terrorist and wound him. There is no doubt that the attacker's wounds significantly lessened the harm he could have caused, but unfortunately, after he was injured, and despite his wounds, the terrorist still managed to murder and elderly man, an 86-year-old man, just because he was Jewish. He was then subdued by a civilian before police arrived, but Daniel's fire was a very significant contribution to the eventual arrest of the terrorist."

Jerusalem Police chief Cmdr. Aharon Franco praised the officers' conduct in the attack: "The officers at the scene acted professionally. The event could have ended much worse. We are investigating the details of how the attacker made his way into a Jerusalem neighborhood".

The attack was the second in a month in Jerusalem and the fourth since July.

On September 22, a Palestinian plowed his car into a group of soldiers at a busy intersection, injuring 13 before he was shot dead.

In two incidents in July, Palestinians carried out attacks on city streets using heavy construction machinery, killing three people and wounding several others.

AP contributed to this report