Palestinian man killed in incident at Jerusalem checkpoint

Man who was wielding two knives shot dead by Israeli troops Israeli troops shot and killed a young Palestinian man wielding two knives on Saturday when they gave chase after he tried to attack the troops near a checkpoint in the Jerusalem area, police said. The incident happened at about midnight near the A-Zayyim checkpoint at the outskirts of East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, the land Israel captured in a 1967 war that Palestinians seek for a state.