From
mid-April 2021
, after the start of Ramadan, clashes broke out between the Israeli police and Palestinians protesting against barriers placed in the Old City of Jerusalem.
On May 7
, clashes took place inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a place sacred to both Jews and Muslims. Hundreds of Palestinians are injured by rubber bullets and stun grenades fired by Israeli police. At the same time, in early May, violence broke out in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, where Palestinian families were threatened with eviction by Jewish settlers.
May 9
the scheduled Israeli Supreme Court hearing in this case has been postponed to avoid fueling tensions.
On May 10
, the march of young Israelis in the Old City to celebrate "Jerusalem Day" in memory of the conquest of East Jerusalem by the Jewish state in 1967 was canceled.
But the stiffening
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