On Friday morning “they registered 42 wounded in clashes with the occupation forces” on the Esplanade of the Mosques, announced the Palestinian Red Crescent, which had previously given a first balance of 12 wounded.
Of the 42 injured, 22 were transported to the Jerusalem hospital, although “none is in serious condition,” said this entity.
The Israeli police indicated that their agents intervened because “rioters” threw stones and fireworks at the wailing wallthe most important place of prayer of the Jews also located in that enclosure.
The statement indicates that the police used “riot dispersal means” in their intervention. Witnesses and AFP journalists pointed out that officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets.
A precarious calm then settled in Jerusalem, when a crowd of faithful gathered to pray on this last Friday of RamadanMuslim fasting month that ends early next week.
Some carried Palestinian flags and the Islamist movement Hamasaccording to an AFP journalist
In recent days, tension has been high in the Mosque Esplanade, considered the third holy place for Muslims and the holiest for Jews under its name of Temple Mount.
Over the past two weeks, some 300 Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli security forces at this site in Jerusalem’s Old City.
These disturbances occur in a context of escalation after four attacks since the end of March in Israel, which left 14 dead, including an Arab-Israeli policeman and two Ukrainians. Two of the attacks were carried out in Tel-Aviv by Palestinians from the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Since then, a total of 26 Palestinians and three Israeli Arabs have been killed (including the perpetrators of the attacks) in clashes with Israeli forces, who have carried out operations in the occupied West Bank.
These clashes occurred when this Friday the al-Quds day (Jerusalem in Arabic), initiated by Iran after the Islamic revolution of 1979.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Iran in support of the Palestinians.
Source: Ambito
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