Border Police guard, 23, stabbed at Damascus Gate; officers also attacked at Zedekiah’s Cave; three assailants, residents of West Bank, killed; Hamas hails ‘continued intifada’

A female Border Police officer died of her wounds late Friday, soon after she was critically injured in a coordinated stabbing and shooting terror attack in two areas near Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday evening.  She was identified as Hadas Malka, 23.

Malka was stabbed in the upper torso by a Palestinian assailant on Sultan Suleiman Street near Damascus Gate while responding to gunfire nearby which later turned out to be the site of the first part of the attack.

She was transferred to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem where she underwent emergency surgery and later succumbed to her injuries.

Her attacker was shot and killed.

Malka was part of a group of Border Police officers making their way to Zedekiah’s Cave in the Muslim Quarter where two Palestinian attackers, one of them armed with a knife and another with a homemade Carlo-style submachine gun, attacked a separate group of Border Police officers. The two were shot and killed. Authorities said the firearm held by the attacker jammed, averting a possibly much deadlier attack.

Malka was attacked by a third assailant while en route to the scene and stabbed repeatedly before her attacker too was shot and killed.

At least four more people were injured in the attacks, including another cop. They all sustained light to moderate wounds and were being treated in hospital.