The person killed on Saturday was 26-year-old Mohammad Khaled al-Osaibi from Houra.
Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man at an entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, elevating fears of additional violence.
The person killed on Saturday was 26-year-old Mohammad Khaled al-Osaibi from Houra, a Bedouin Arab village in southern Israel. The incident occurred at about midnight close to the Chain Gate, an entry level to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, police mentioned.
Palestinian worshippers on the entrance to the location on Saturday mentioned police shot the person at the least 10 instances, after he tried to forestall them from harassing a lady who was on her solution to the holy compound.
The police alleged al-Osaibi tried to take a gun from an officer and fired it in a scuffle.
Hours after the incident, the muddy stone alleyway resulting in the compound was nonetheless stained with blood.
Israeli police have boosted their forces within the space as tens of hundreds of Muslim worshippers from Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution collect for Ramadan prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
On Friday, greater than 200,000 Palestinians gathered for midday prayers on the compound, which handed peacefully.
‘Many photographs’
Noureddine, a 17-year-old who lived within the neighbourhood and declined to offer his final identify for concern of reprisals, mentioned he noticed al-Osaibi confront police who stopped a feminine worshipper on her solution to the mosque.
Al-Osaibi’s relationship to the lady was not clear. Noureddine mentioned some type of disagreement broke out between al-Osaibi and the officers earlier than he heard a dozen photographs ring out.
“Nothing might justify that many photographs,” he mentioned, pointing to chaotic footage he filmed that confirmed Palestinian distributors and worshippers screaming on the sound of bullets being fired in fast succession. “They had been all at shut vary.”
Palestinian media broadly reported al-Osaibi was a physician who studied drugs lately in Romania.
Noureddine mentioned police tried to drive Palestinian distributors and worshippers out of the world after the incident, beating him and others with batons. Israeli police briefly closed the location earlier than reopening it for daybreak prayers.
In earlier years, Ramadan has seen Israeli police assault Palestinians gathered round Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest website. Ramadan coincides this yr with Judaism’s Passover and Christian Easter.
In 2021, the expulsion of Palestinian households from their houses in Jerusalem served as a catalyst for widespread Palestinian protests throughout Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
Raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli safety forces throughout Ramadan heightened tensions additional and, 4 days later, an 11-day Israeli assault on Gaza started, ostensibly in response to rockets fired by Hamas in direction of Israel.