Israeli police plan to deploy hundreds of officers to Jerusalem's Old City next week, a spokesman said Thursday, in a bid to secure an annual march commemorating Israel's capture of east Jerusalem that may coincide with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Tensions were high ahead of Sunday's event, with follows an eight-month-long outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence that has lessened recently but occasionally flares up. On Thursday, the military said a knife-wielding Palestinian woman was shot and killed as she tried to stab a soldier at a West Bank checkpoint.

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