 Israeli border police shot a Palestinian who police said had attempted a stabbing attack at an East Jerusalem checkpoint near the Jewish settlement of Har Homa on September 18. The forces opened fire at the suspect and naturalized him after he pulled out a knife and approached border police officers at a checkpoint, the police statement said. The suspect, who police identified as a 47-year-old resident of the Bethlehem area in the occupied West Bank, was taken for medical treatment and no Israeli officers were wounded in the incident, police added. Israeli Palestinian violence has surged for more than a year, with stepped up Israeli military raids and increased Jewish settler violence in the West Bank amid a spate of Palestinian attacks on Israelis.