A Palestinian youth was pronounced dead on Saturday evening after he was injured in clashes with the Israeli police in al-Eizariya town in Jerusalem.
A local source reported that Yousuf Kashour 24 died of a serious injury to the chest.
Violent confrontations erupted on Saturday evening between the Israeli police and the Jerusalemite worshipers protesting at Bab al-Asbat near al-Aqsa Mosque.
The PIC reporter said that the Israeli police attacked worshipers with sound bombs and putrid water and added that a cordon was later imposed around the scene after large police reinforcements were summoned in a bid to prevent worshipers from performing evening prayer there.
Earlier 3 Palestinians were injured with rubber bullets in clashes with the Israeli police at Qalandia checkpoint in Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced that its crews treated 67 injuries this evening in Jerusalem.
Head of the Heritage and Manuscripts Department at al-Aqsa Mosque Radwan Amr said that the Israeli police assaulted worshipers and started to force them out of the Old City of Jerusalem describing what is happening at al-Asbat as a “real massacre against a peaceful sit-in”.
Despite the Israeli attacks hundreds of Palestinians coming from Jerusalem the West Bank and the 1948 occupied territories protested for the 9th day in a row at Bab al-Asbat and outside the Old City against closing al-Aqsa Mosque and installing metal detectors at its gates.
On 14th July the Israeli authorities banned Friday prayer at the Mosque following an anti-occupation shooting attack in which two Israeli police officers were killed.
Later the Old City was closed and prayer was banned at the shrine until further notice for the first time since 1969 and on 16th July 9 metal detectors were erected at al-Aqsa gates.
Since then Palestinian worshipers have refused to enter the Mosque through these metal detectors and decided to perform their prayers at its entrances.
