Israeli police raided, on Wednesday, and attacked dozens of worshippers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. As per Reuters, witnesses mentioned that this assault was in response to rioting.
As per Reuters, the Palestinian Purple Crescent mentioned seven Palestinians sustained wounds from rubber-tipped bullets and beatings in clashes with Israeli police on the compound. The Israeli police had been stopping medics from reaching the mosque, it mentioned.
Israeli police mentioned in a press release that they had been compelled to enter the compound after “masked agitators” locked themselves contained in the mosque with fireworks, sticks and stones.
VIDEO: Clashes have erupted contained in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Israeli police mentioned they entered to dislodge “agitators” – a transfer denounced as an “unprecedented crime” by the Palestinian Islamist motion Hamas pic.twitter.com/Y12u8QiqNX
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Talab Abu Eisha, 49, informed AP that greater than 400 males, ladies and youngsters had been praying at Al-Aqsa when the police encircled the mosque.
“The youths had been afraid and began closing the doorways,” he mentioned, including that police forces “stormed the jap nook, beating and arresting males there.”
”It was an unprecedented scene of violence when it comes to police brutality and intention to harm the youths,” he mentioned, denying police claims that younger males had been hiding fireworks and rocks.
Nevertheless, the Israeli police assertion mentioned, “When the police entered, stones had been thrown at them and fireworks had been fired from contained in the mosque by a big group of agitators,” including {that a} police officer was wounded within the leg, as per the Reuters.
Friction on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, identified to Jews because the Temple Mount, has set off violence in recent times.
In the meantime the Palestinians teams condemned Israel’s assaults on worshippers, calling it against the law.
“We warn the occupation towards crossing crimson strains at holy websites, which can result in a giant explosion,” mentioned Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The incident sparked protests outdoors the occupied West Financial institution and the Israeli army claimed that 9 rockets had been fired from Gaza towards Israel, of which no less than 4 had been intercepted and 4 landed in open areas.
Over the previous 12 months, violence within the occupied West Financial institution and Jerusalem has surged and now there are issues that tensions may escalate this month, because the Muslim holy month of Ramzan coincides with Judaism’s Passover and Christian Easter.