On the morning of July 14, three Arab-Israeli citizens came out of the al-Aqsa mosque and shot dead two Israeli Druze policemen, setting off a deadly wave of protests and violence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted by installing metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount, which houses some of the holiest sites to the three big Abrahamic religions. This caused Palestinians in east Jerusalem to boycott the sacred compound and in the ensuing violence, three Israelis and three Palestinians were killed in the West Bank.
