Local sources said that the 50-year-old doctor, Hazem al-Jolani, was carried to hospital in a very serious condition where he was pronounced dead.

They added that the zionist occupation police killed the Palestinian man in cold blood and battered him after shooting him.

Zionist police forces closed Bab al-Majles in the Aqsa Mosque where the alleged stabbing attack took place and fired stun grenades at Jerusalemites in the area, who were trying to enter the Mosque through that gate. Israeli TV7 channel said that a policeman was injured in the attempted stabbing.