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| Palestinian teen shot dead as protests rage in Jerusalem – reports | Palestinian teen shot dead as protests rage in Jerusalem – reports |
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| A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler amid mass protests, according to the Palestinian Maan agency and the Israeli Haaretz media outlet. | A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler amid mass protests, according to the Palestinian Maan agency and the Israeli Haaretz media outlet. |
| Hundreds more people were injured in the clashes. | Hundreds more people were injured in the clashes. |
| The Palestinian was 18 years old, and the incident took place in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Maan and Haaretz reported. | |
| The rallies followed Muslim Friday prayers. Israeli police used live ammunition, tear gas and rubber-coated bullets against the demonstrators. | |
| The Palestinian Red Crescent has put the number of those injured in East Jerusalem and the West Bank at some 140 people. | |
| The grand mufti of Jerusalem and the heads of Palestinian factions have discussed the tensions. Mufti Muhammad Hussein told Haaretz: "We will continue to struggle against the metal detectors until the Israeli government takes them out of there. I call on the Muslim world to join the struggle to preserve [the Temple Mount] as an exclusive place for Islam." | |
| Earlier on Friday, 3,000 officers were deployed around the Old City to avoid riots, according to AP. |