Israeli police forces entered the holy site on Friday morning. for Islam and Judaism, while Palestinian youths were throwing stones in their direction, an AFP journalist confirmed, who saw some wounded.
“Masked rioters with (Islamist movement) flags HamasThey threw stones at the Wailing Wall, Judaism’s holy place of prayer located at the bottom of the Esplanade of the Mosques, Israeli police said.
The enclosure, where the mosque is located Al-Aqsa and the dome of the rockis the third holy place in Islam and the holiest in Judaism under its name of temple mount.
The tension persisted in the Esplanade, with stone throwing and rubber bullets being fired, on the third Friday of the sacred month of Ramadanwhich coincides with the end of the celebration of Pesachthe Jewish Passover.
Over the past week, more than 200 people, mostly Palestinians, have been injured in and around the Temple Mount.
These episodes led Hamas to launch rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, whose army responded with airstrikes on this Palestinian enclave of 2.3 million people.
The presence in the place during Ramadan of a large number of Jews – who are allowed to visit the place under certain conditions and at specific times without praying – and the deployment of the security forces in this holy place located in the City Old Jerusalem was described as a “provocation” by the Palestinians and several countries in the region.
Several Arab ministers meeting in Amman condemned “the Israeli attacks and violations against the faithful of the Al Aqsa mosque”a temple administered by Jordan although access is controlled by Israel.
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, met with the Deputy Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Yaël Lempert, and the emissary in charge of Palestinian-Israeli relations, Hady Amr.
The two American diplomats later met with the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, which is based in occupied west bank.
“The president (of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas) called for the urgent intervention of the US administration to put an end once and for all to the Israeli scale in the Palestinian Territories,” Hussein al-Sheikh, a Palestinian Authority official, said after the meeting.
The riots in the Temple Mount were preceded by an escalation of tension in the volatile area due to a series of attacks on Israeli cities and police operations, sometimes deadly, against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Source: Ambito
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