A young man was killed today, Thursday, during an armed clash with the Israeli occupation police in the city of Jerusalem, after he targeted its headquarters near Bab al-Sahira, one of the gates of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem, in a shooting operation, which resulted in the injury of two members of the occupation police, one of whom was seriously injured.

The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem operation, and mourned its perpetrator, Khaled Mohtaseb, and said that it came “in solidarity with our resistance in Gaza as they fight the battle of the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’, and in response to the heinous Zionist crimes against our people.” In the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem.”

According to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority (“Kan 11”), the perpetrator of the attack was martyred by the bullets of the occupation forces, indicating that he was a resident of the towns of occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli reports stated that the perpetrator was 21 years old and a resident of the town of Beit Hanina in occupied Jerusalem.