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· collected 2026-09-04 · by Al Jazeera Staff
Israeli police killed a 33-year-old Palestinian man, Ibrahim al-Hendi, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday. The police claimed he was attempting to stab one of them, but the Palestinian Wafa news agency identified him as an unarmed resident of East Jerusalem's Beit Hanina neighborhood. In related incidents, the Israeli army blocked a group of 100 peace activists from delivering food and medicine to Palestinians under siege in Qusra, saying it was a "closed military zone". The blockade has lasted for 28 days, with settlers surrounding three Palestinian homes in Qusra.
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Israeli police killed a 33-year-old Palestinian man, Ibrahim al-Hendi, on Friday near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. According to Israeli authorities, he was attempting to stab one of the officers, but his claim is disputed by the Palestinian Wafa news agency. Meanwhile, in the West Bank village of Qusra, the Israeli army blocked a humanitarian aid convoy from reaching three families trapped on Mount Ras al-Ain for 28 days, citing alleged security concerns. This incident occurred as part of a broader pattern of escalating violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory, with reports of tear gas being used against worshippers at mosques and two Palestinians killed during raids by settlers and Israeli forces in another village.
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Israeli police have killed a Palestinian man in Jerusalem and the Israeli army has blocked humanitarian assistance from reaching an occupied West Bank village besieged by settlers for weeks.
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Officers opened fire on a 33-year-old Palestinian near Damascus gate in Jerusalem on Friday.
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Israeli police said its border guard “neutralised” the man, claiming he was attempting to stab one of them.
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Palestinians killed as settlers, Israeli forces raid West Bank village
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The Palestinian Wafa news agency identified the man as Ibrahim al-Hendi from East Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighbourhood.
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He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Following the incident, Israeli forces deployed around Damascus Gate and the surrounding area of Jerusalem’s Old City, Palestinian sources told Al Jazeera.
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Separately, the Israeli army said that it arrested Palestinians in the town of Qabatiya in the West Bank, alleging they were “planning to carry out an attack” against Israelis and security forces.
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Ten other Palestinians were arrested during a 48-hour Israeli army operation in Nablus in the West Bank.
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The Israeli army said it seized more than “30 weapon production machines used to manufacture weapons” during the operation.
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Meanwhile, Israeli settlers and soldiers carried out attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, Wafa reported.
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Settlers stormed the Khirbet al-Hamra community in the northern Jordan Valley and assaulted one resident.
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Israeli settlers, accompanied by soldiers, also attacked Khalet a-Nahlah in southern Bethlehem.
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Israeli forces also fired tear gas and concussion grenades at a crowd of Palestinians who gathered to resist the attacks.
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Blocking access to Qusra
As violence and harassment of Palestinians continues across the occupied territory, the Israeli army on Friday also prevented around 100 peace activists from delivering food and medicine to Palestinians who have been under siege in the town of Qusra for 28 days.
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Since August 9, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes in the northern occupied West Bank village, while the Israeli army has also prevented the families from entering or leaving them, claiming the area is a “closed military zone”.
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About 100 activists arrived to deliver supplies to the besieged families,” the Israeli Peace Now movement said in a post on X.
“The army blocked us at first, claiming Qusra was a ‘closed military zone.’
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Then let us in but on the way back detained us for ‘violating a closed military zone’,” it added.
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Qusra Mayor Abdel Azim Wadi also told the state-run Turkish Anadolu news agency that the Israeli army has been “preventing the delivery of basic necessities to three families trapped on Mount Ras al-Ain”.
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US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Israeli public broadcaster Kan on Friday that settler violence against Palestinians is “damaging the image of Israel as a nation and a people, warning that Israel “needs all the friends it can get” and “doesn’t need more enemies”.
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Around 750,000 Israeli settlers live in 156 illegal settlements and 360 settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and carry out attacks aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians, according to Palestinian figures.
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