Israeli police flooded the occupied east Jerusalem ahead of the funeral of a Palestinian teenager martyred by Israelis and the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan

Israeli police flooded the occupied east Jerusalem ahead of the funeral of a Palestinian teenager martyred by Israelis and the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan.
  
Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, who was kidnapped and found tortured to death on Wednesday, was to be buried in east Jerusalem's Shuafat neighbourhood after the midday (0900 GMT) prayers, with tensions running high.
  
Zionist commanders meanwhile waited to see if a series of statements by Israeli leaders promising to "meet quiet with quiet" would bring a halt to the latest flare-up of attacks on the Gaza border.
  
Media reports spoke of a possible truce in the making after a week of air strikes against Gaza and retaliatory rocket fire into the occupied southern territories.

An Israeli police statement said that "thousands of police were deployed this morning in east Jerusalem in order to maintain security." Tens of thousands of worshippers were expected to head for the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque complex for the main weekly prayers on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
 Zionist Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP that following a late-night situation assessment, police commanders decided to “limit access by men to the complex to those over 50 years of age. There were no restrictions on women,” he said.
  
After the prayers, Martyr Abu Khder's funeral was to be held in Shuafat, a day later than originally planned after his body was held so that pathologists could complete a post-mortem.