Israeli occupation forces Friday assaulted hundreds of Palestinian Muslim worshipers at the Al-Haram al-Ibrahimi (Ibrahimi Mosque) in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.

Soldiers fired teargas canisters and stun grenades at the worshipers to disperse them, causing many cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.

Prior to this, hundreds of worshipers from Hebron and neighboring towns and villages converged to the holy site at the call of the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs, prompted by Israel’s construction of a separate passage and an elevator in the holy site which will only serve Israeli settlers.