A Palestinian was shot dead after trying to attack Israeli troops with a knife on Friday, the Israeli military said, but otherwise a planned “Day of Rage” seem to pass quietly in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army said the Palestinian, identified as 24-year-old Abdullah Ali Mahmoud Taqatqa, was killed when he tried to charge at Israeli soldiers near the Gush Etzion junction, a major road junction in the West Bank. No Israelis were injured.

Israeli officials had feared that thousands of young Palestinians might clash with Israeli troops soldiers after two weeks of tension over the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Israel banned men under 50 from going to the mosque after clashes on Thursday.

But by Friday afternoon there were only sporadic confrontations in the West Bank and the afternoon prayers passed peacefully in Jerusalem.

Thousands of young Muslim men, unable to get to the al-Aqsa mosque, instead prayed in the streets of east Jerusalem in the 85F (29C) heat.