Ra’ed Jaradat, who was shot dead this morning.
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She said: “I have information from eyewitnesses that he was a few metres away from the soldiers and he did not have a knife”.
The site is holy to both Muslims, who know it as the Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews, who know it as the Temple Mount.
Israeli security forces on Monday shot a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Hebron as he attempted to stab an IDF soldier near the Tomb of the Patriarchs. “Where is the knife?’ She took a step back but there were a dozen soldiers behind her. They shot seven or eight times”.
The Palestinian-led worldwide Solidarity Movement spoke out on the issue, stating that it had received similar reports.
Meanwhile, police maintain that they recovered a knife that had been in her possession. Four Israelis and 25 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of October.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have been climbing as of late.
Also on Sunday at least three Palestinians were injured with live and rubber-coated steel bullets in the Hebron-area town of Sa’ir, which the Israeli army had declared a closed military zone as it searched for a Palestinian accused of a stabbing attack against an Israeli settler earlier that day near Sa’ir.
The forces then dragged the injured youth into the checkpoint, preventing Palestine’s Red Crescent ambulances from reaching him for treatment, the eyewitnesses added.
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The violence erupted a month ago, triggered by increased visits by far-right Jewish leaders to the Al-Aqsa compound and fears that Israel is plotting to take over the site.
