Footage has emerged of gunmen shooting dead two Israeli police officers outside one of Jerusalem’s holiest and most sensitive sites in the early hours of Friday morning.<br /><br />In the early hours of Friday morning, three Arab Israeli citizens armed with home-made machine guns and a pistol opened fire outside the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.<br /><br />Footage shows moment when Palestinian Gunmen carried attack on two Israeli Policemen in today’s #JerusalemAttack.pic.twitter.com/MKumdQ9HKB— Battle Analytics (@BattleAnalytics) July 14, 2017<br /><br /><br />Not long after the incident, the chief of the Israeli police confirmed the death of two male officers from wounds sustained in the attack. <br /><br />Israeli police shut down all access to the site, which houses the al-Aqsa mosque, effectively cancelling Friday prayers for the thousands of Muslims who flock there every week.<br /><br />People wait to begin Friday prayers on Salah ad-Deen street as they are blocked from al-Aqsa after #JerusalemAttack pic.twitter.com/wVnNLXUjpg— Jacob Burns (@JacobTBurns) July 14, 2017<br /><br /><br />The Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Hussein, called on worshipers to defy the closure.<br /><br />The incident was one of the most serious attacks seen in the Israeli capital in recent years, and Isreali -Palestinian tensions threatened to flare up in the immediate aftermath.<br />
