“An injured person evacuated a few weeks ago from the Old City neighborhood to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, with a head injury and in very serious condition, died,” the Israeli hospital said in a statement.
A Palestinian died on Saturday of injuries sustained during clashes with Israeli police in April at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, his family and medical sources said. “An injured person evacuated a few weeks ago from the Old City neighborhood to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, with a head injury and in very serious condition, died,” the Israeli hospital said in a statement.
The deceased’s family also announced his death in an audio message to reporters. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, it is Walid Al-Sharif, 23, from the Beit Hanina neighborhood in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian sector of the city occupied and annexed by Israel. According to the same source, he was injured on April 22 during clashes between Israeli forces and young Palestinians on the esplanade of the Mosques – the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism under its name of Temple Mount. –, located in the Old City in East Jerusalem.
“Means of dispersal”
Israeli police entered the plaza and used ‘means of dispersal’ after Palestinians threw stones towards the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site below the Al-Masjid plaza , according to the police. “The deceased man was one of the rioters (…) he was seriously injured when he fell to the ground on his head as he fled,” police told AFP on Saturday. “The police gave him first aid” with a medical team and tried to “resuscitate him before he was transferred to hospital”, she added. Since mid-April, clashes between Israeli and Palestinian police have left one Palestinian dead and nearly 300 injured, the vast majority of them Palestinians, on the esplanade of the Mosques.