Jerusalem ( CNN ) -- Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who attacked police officers with a knife in a village in northern Israel early Saturday , an Israeli police spokeswoman said , amid simmering tensions in the region . Police had gone to arrest a man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail in Kafr Kana when they were attacked by the 22-year-old Palestinian man carrying a knife , spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement . The officers fired in the air `` but after facing undeterred danger , the police fired at young man , '' the statement said . He later died of his injuries in the hospital . Local officials gave a conflicting version of events , however . And a locally circulated flier denouncing the killing , which named the man as Khair Hamdan , suggested his crime was being an Arab . A mobile phone recording of CCTV footage obtained by CNN appears to show a young man running toward a vehicle , causing it to stop . He then appears to hit one of the front windows three times with his right hand but it 's unclear if he is holding anything . When the door behind starts to open he lunges toward that too , causing it to close again . The young man then backs away and a man armed with a handgun gets out of the vehicle and appears to fire at the attacker as he turns away . The young man falls to the ground . More men get out and the attacker is pulled along the ground and lifted into the vehicle , which then drives away . The entire scene plays out in little over a minute . Village official : 'Racist ' act . Samri said the incident was being investigated and that extra police officers would be sent to the area . About 50 young men gathered and burned tires on Saturday morning at another entrance to Kafr Kana , she said , but they were dispersed by police and the situation calmed down . Mujahed Awawdeh , head of the Kafr Kana local council , told CNN that Hamdan had approached the police vehicle and started knocking on the passenger side window after another resident of the village was arrested shortly after midnight . `` Moments later you can see in the video the police exited the vehicle and shot the man point blank in cold blood , '' he said , describing it as a `` racist '' act against an Israeli Arab . Nahi Said , a member of the local council , said the video did not show a knife and accused the police of `` flexing their muscles on a community that is not armed . '' He said the arrested man was Hamdan 's cousin . Kafr Kana 's central council committee said a demonstration would be held Saturday afternoon to show people 's anger at Hamdan 's killing by Israeli police . Contested holy site . The incident comes amid heightened tensions which erupted into clashes Friday between stone-throwing Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem . Palestinian medics said at least 30 youths were injured . Earlier in the week , there were two hit-and-run attacks by drivers in Jerusalem , one against three soldiers and the other against pedestrians at a rail station in eastern Jerusalem . A second person who was hit at the train station died Friday . Another 12 people were injured and an Israeli border police officer died in the attack Wednesday . The driver of the van involved was shot to death by police . The violence comes against a backdrop of days of unrest over the Temple Mount , or Haram al-Sharif . Israeli police on Wednesday clashed with Palestinian youths at the holy site , leaving more than 15 people injured , according to paramedics with the Red Crescent . It was just the latest round of unrest there since activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick was shot and gravely wounded on October 29 after championing more Jewish rights at the site , where Jews can now gather but not pray . Israeli police shot and killed a suspect in Glick 's shooting . CNN 's Kareem Khadder reported from Jerusalem and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London .
Israeli police say they shot a Palestinian man who threatened them with a knife . Local officials say the man only knocked on the window and was shot point blank . CCTV footage appears to show the confrontation playing out in just over a minute . The incident happened at around 12:30 pm local time, according to Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.