Jerusalem (AFP)
Two Palestinian minors stabbed and wounded "slightly" Thursday an Israeli policeman in the Old City of Jerusalem, and one of them was killed in retaliation fire, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The second miner was evacuated to an Israeli hospital that deemed his condition "critical". The Palestinian Red Crescent and the Israeli police also reported a third Palestinian wounded in the leg who was not one of the attackers.
According to the police, the attack took place at one of the gates leading to the esplanade of the Mosques, in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Access to this site has been banned for men under 50 for the dusk prayer, according to the spokesman of the Waqf, a Muslim organization that administers the site.
Clashes between Israeli policemen and Muslims on the esplanade of the Mosques, high place of tension in Jerusalem, had Sunday dozens of wounded Palestinians.
Four Israeli policemen were also wounded in the clashes on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which coincided this year with the Jewish commemoration of Tisha Beav.
In the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the esplanade of the Mosques is in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian area of the city occupied since 1967 by Israel, which subsequently annexed it without being recognized by the international community.
The esplanade is the third holiest site of Islam and the most sacred site for Jews as considered the site of their two Temples, which Ticha Beav commemorates the destruction, by the Babylonians in 587 BC and then by the Romans in the year 70.
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