Police officer critically injured in coordinated shooting, stabbing attack in Jerusalem

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3. Palestinian militant groups deny Islamic State claim of Jerusalem attack

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Sat Jun 17, 2017 | 1:51am EDT

Palestinian militant groups deny Islamic State claim of Jerusalem attack

Palestinian militant factions denied on Saturday a claim by Islamic State that three Palestinian men who carried out a fatal shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem were members of the militant group.

Islamic State took responsibility for the attack on Friday, in which one Israeli police officer was killed and another wounded, according to the group's Amaq news agency.

Israeli security officials did not respond immediately to requests for comment on what the SITE intelligence monitoring group described as the first time Islamic State had claimed responsibility for an attack in Israeli-controlled territory, nor on the attackers' affiliation.

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

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