Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenage boy on Friday evening after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli police officer at one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.
Media sources said that occupation police shot the young man, Mohammad Nidal Abu Lebda, 17, after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli police officer at the Bab al-Silsila (Chain Gate), one of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Video footage shows the wounded Abu Lebda lying on the ground bleeding while medical treatment was withheld, resulting in his death.
The Red Star of David said its ambulance crews transported a 25-year-old man to hospital after he was stabbed; his condition was described as moderate.
The Jerusalem Governorate said that following the shooting, occupation forces detained Muslim worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque after closing all its gates, assaulting them when they tried to exit through the Bab al-Asbat (Lion’s Gate).
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem (Silwanic) reported that Israeli forces then stormed the home of the slain young man in Beit Hanina town, north of occupied Jerusalem.
Silwanic said a large Israeli military force invaded Beit Hanina, before storming and ransacking Abu Lebda family home, and ransacked the property, causing damage, before abducting his father, his mother and his brothers.
The Israeli Army Radio reported that the slain man was “carrying a knife at Bab al-Silsila in the Old City. A police officer present became suspicious of him, and at some point, the perpetrator approached the officer and stabbed him in the back with the knife he had in his possession.”
Media sources reported that occupation forces stormed the area, erected several military roadblocks in various neighborhoods of occupied Jerusalem, and launched a reconnaissance drone over the Al-Mosque.
This year alone, 144 Palestinians, including 25 children and 5 women, have been killed in the West Bank, one of the slain Palestinians was killed by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers.
