JERUSALEM, Saturday, December 15, 2018 (WAFA) – A Palestinian elderly woman died of a heart attack on Saturday evening while inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound  in occupied East Jerusalem, after Israeli forces prevented ambulances from reaching her, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

PRC said medics at Al-Aqsa attempted to provide aid to the elderly woman, identified as Sumayya Mahmoud Nasser, 86, after she had lost consciousness inside the compound, and called for an ambulance to transfer her to hospital.

Israeli forces reportedly prevented the ambulance from reaching the woman for around 8 minutes, according to PRC.

The woman hails from the village of Jit in Palestinian lands occupied in 1948.

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