Fatah's armed wing claims responsibility for attack near Jerusalem

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, armed wing of Fatah of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, claimed responsibility on Saturday night for an earlier attack on Israeli troops in east Jerusalem.

Two Palestinian gunmen were killed after they opened fire at two Israeli security guards in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Saad, Israel Radio quoted local police sources as saying, adding that the two Israeli security guards were moderately wounded.

An anonymous spokesman of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades told several local reporters in the West Bank on telephone that two of its militants carried out the armed ambush against an Israeli border police force near the security fence that Israel builds outside the Sheikh Saad neighborhood.

The two militants of the group were killed after they wounded five Israeli border police officers, two of them are in serious conditions, said the spokesman.

Israeli police said that it had earlier received more than 10 warnings that Palestinian gunmen were planning armed attacks against Israel.

Source: Xinhua