Palestinian man stabbed, elderly Palestinian woman shot in Jerusalem

A Palestinian man was stabbed and a Palestinian woman in her sixties was shot in Jerusalem on Friday.

The 29-year-old man, Ibadah Jamjoum, was moderately wounded after an Israeli settler stabbed him while he was working in Jerusalem, local sources told The New Arab's Arabic sister service Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The reporting did not say where in the city the incident took place.

The sources said the woman, 65, was shot in the hand while in occupied East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam.

A mosque guard said the gunshot came from the western side of Al-Aqsa, where there are a group of illegal settlement outposts.

Separately, large groups of settlers organised a march on Friday evening starting from the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City and stopping at the entrance to the Cotton Merchants' Market.

There were racist chants and an attempt to assault worshippers as they left the mosque compound, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported.

Israel captured and began occupying East Jerusalem in 1967 along with the rest of the West Bank.

It maintains a network of illegal settlements in these territories where more than 700,000 settlers reside.

Settlements breach international law and are considered a key barrier to achieving a workable two-state solution as they carve up Palestinian land.