Mahmoud Omar Kameel, 17, was killed several times after allegedly firing on Israeli soldiers.
A Palestinian teenager has been killed by Israeli forces after he was accused of firing on soldiers in the Old Town in East Jerusalem on Monday night.
According to Israeli police, the teenager, identified by local media as 17-year-old Mahmoud Omar Kameel, approached a police post near the entrance of the Lion Gate to the Old Town and shot at them.
“Police and border guards working in the Old Town followed him on foot, while firing on them,” Israeli police said in a statement.
Witnesses said Israeli forces fired Kameel several times after he chased and surrounded him in the area.
Immediately after the firing, Israeli forces closed the gates leading to the Old Town and blocked access to the Al Aqsa Mosque base.
Israeli volunteer community emergency response team members pick up Kameel’s body after a burning incident in East Jerusalem’s Old Town [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
Kameel belonged to the village of Qabatiyeh near the West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian officials did not immediately report the incident.
Israel captured East Jerusalem during the 1967 war and added to the area, in a movement unrecognized by the international community.
In 2018, the United States became the first country to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, thus recognizing the city as the capital of Israel.