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260,000 Muslims pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa Mosque after terror attacks
[IsraelTimes] Police allow prayers for final Friday of month of Ramadan to go ahead despite a Paleostinian assailant stabbing and wounding two Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City.Hundreds of thousands of Moslems took part in the final Friday prayers of Ramadan at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, as Israel heightened security following a Paleostinian stabbing attack. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf organization which administers the site, the third holiest site in Islam, said in total 260,000 worshipers gathered for the lunchtime prayers. The prayers came only hours after a Paleostinian teenager stabbed two Israelis inside the Old City before being rubbed out by Israeli police. In a separate incident, another Paleostinian teenager was rubbed out by Israeli forces in the West Bank as he sought to breach the security barrier and sneak into Jerusalem, reportedly to pray at al-Aqsa. In Jerusalem, a 19-year-old Paleostinian stabbed one Israeli near Damascus Gate and another near Jaffa Gate on the other side of the walled Old City, police front man Mickey Rosenfeld said. One of the Israelis, a man in his 40s, was in a critical condition with knife wounds to the neck and the other, 16-year-old Yisrael Meir Nachumberg, was stabbed in his back. "Police units that responded at the scene saw the attacker with a knife. The attacker was shot and killed," Rosenfeld said. The Paleostinian health ministry later named him as Yusef Wajih from Abwein village in the central West Bank. A video released by police showed a man running through the streets and stabbing two Orthodox Jews. After the latest attack on Friday, gates to the Old City were briefly sealed before being reopened as thousands thronged towards the mosque. Inside the mostly uncovered mosque compound, water was sprayed on worshipers to keep them cool in the baking Jerusalem sun, with temperatures approaching 40°C (104°F). Despite a heavy police presence, there were no reports of further incidents. Rosenfeld said increased security presence would "continue throughout the afternoon and evening." Palestinian teen shot dead in West Bank, apparently while breaching fence [IsraelTimes] Incident near Bethlehem comes hours after Jerusalem terror attack and amid heightened Ramadan tensions. A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. In a statement, the ministry said Abdullah Ghaith, 16, “died after he was shot by Israeli occupation soldiers close to Bethlehem and his heart and lungs were penetrated.” Another man, 21, was shot in the stomach at the same location and was being treated in hospital, the ministry said. Israeli police said that the Palestinian teenager was shot while attempting to climb over the heavily guarded security barrier from Bethlehem into Jerusalem. The police added that they were launching a probe into the incident.
“He was going to fulfill his religious duty, he was going to worship,” Ghaith said. “They killed him… with a bullet to his heart, like a game, and 16 years I’ve been raising him.” He fulfilled his religious duty, dying like a Earlier on Friday, a Palestinian man was detained at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Jerusalem after security forces found a knife in his possession. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-01 |
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