Shareef was injured on April 22 within the Al Aqsa Mosque compound — the positioning of repeated confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators in latest weeks.
Newbie video from the time reveals a big group of Palestinians working away from the course of heavy Israeli hearth. Instantly after one shot, Shareef is seen falling on his face and mendacity immobile on the bottom. Israeli police shortly evacuated him.
On the time, police fired sponge-tipped bullets to disperse a crowd of masked Palestinians that it stated was throwing stones and fireworks towards police and close to the Western Wall — Judaism’s most holy prayer web site.
Palestinian witnesses and Shareef’s household say he was shot within the head with a rubber bullet, whereas Israeli authorities have advised he died from accidents sustained when he fell on the bottom. Hadassah officers on Saturday declined to present a exact reason for the top damage.
The household’s lawyer, Firas Jebreeni, stated the household has rejected an Israeli request for an post-mortem, however that police refused to allow them to see the physique and eliminated it with out permission to Israel’s foremost forensics institute. He stated he has appealed to an Israeli courtroom to forestall the post-mortem and return the physique to the household.
His dying got here a day after Shireen Abu Akleh, a well known Al Jazeera journalist who was killed on Wednesday throughout an Israeli military raid within the occupied West Financial institution, was laid to relaxation in Jerusalem in a mass funeral during which Israeli police pushed and beat mourners and pallbearers.
The Palestinians, together with fellow journalists who had been together with her, say she was killed by Israeli gunfire. The Israeli army says there was an trade of fireside with Palestinian gunmen on the time, and its unclear who fired the deadly bullet.
Shareef was injured throughout violence at a contested compound that’s dwelling to the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest web site in Islam, and revered by Jews because the Temple Mount, dwelling to the biblical Temples and the holiest web site in Judaism. The competing claims to the positioning lie on the coronary heart of the Israeli-Palestinian battle, and the compound is a frequent scene of violence.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, dwelling to the Outdated Metropolis and its delicate non secular websites, within the 1967 Mideast warfare. Israel claims the entire metropolis as its capital and annexed east Jerusalem in a transfer that’s not internationally acknowledged. The Palestinians declare east Jerusalem because the capital of a future unbiased state.
