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Muhammad Alesibi, a suspected 26-year-old Palestinian terrorist from the village of Hora, was killed on Saturday night by Israeli policemen in the Old City of Jerusalem. The police have claimed that Alesibi was going through a security check near the main gate to the Temple Mount, when he attacked a policeman, stole his weapon and fired a shot from the gun towards other Israeli forces on the scene. Security checkpoints in the old city are standard at entracnes to holy sites such as the Western Wall and the Temple Mount; all who wish to visit the sites have to pass through them, Jew, Christian and Muslim alike.
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