September 30, 2021: Isra’ Khaled Khzaimiah, 30, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the Chain Gate, leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
The Israeli police claimed the woman carried a sharp object and attempted to stab officers before they delivered the fatal shots.
It also claimed that the woman exited the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound through the Chain Gate, and “pulled a knife out in an attempt to stab officers, before they fired live rounds at her.”
Eyewitnesses said the woman was still alive, but seriously injured and unable to move, and added that the police prevented anybody from reaching her to render the urgently needed first aid before she succumbed to her wounds.
The slain woman is married mother of four children, the youngest are four and two years of age.
The Israeli police and the army then closed the entire area and declared it a closed zone, preventing the Palestinians, including school children, from leaving or entering it.
The soldiers alo closed many roads and installed various roadblocks in several areas of East Jerusalem, especially near and around Al-Aqsa Mosque.
مشاهد أولية للحظة إطلاق قوات الاحتلال النار في منطقة باب السلسلة في محيط المسجد الأقصى ووقوع إصابة لم تعرف حالتها حتى اللحظة pic.twitter.com/4PrQ5Dboov
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) September 30, 2021
#متابعة .. قوات الاحتـ.ـلال تغلق باب العامود بالمسجد الأقصى المبارك، أمام حركة المقدسيين للداخل والخارج، بعد اطلاق النار على فتاة فلسطينية قرب باب السلسلة. pic.twitter.com/qyNWtCBwbA
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) September 30, 2021
#فيديو من باب السلسلة بالقدس المحتلة، مكان استشهاد إسراء خزيمية من قباطية، برصاص شرطة الاحتلال.
تصوير: ابراهيم السنجلاوي pic.twitter.com/24R0rW47pg— Ultra Palestine – الترا فلسطين (@palestineultra) September 30, 2021
On the same day, the soldiers also killed Ala’ Nasser Zayyoud, 22, from Qabatia, and Mohammad Ammar, 41, from al-Boreij in central Gaza Strip.
Isra’ was from Qabatia town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Source: IMEMC