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Clashes in East Jerusalem: 10 Palestinians arrested by Israeli police

2021-06-22T12:48:36.609Z


Ten Palestinians were arrested Friday, June 18 after clashes with Israeli police on the Mosque Esplanade in East Jerusalem ...


Ten Palestinians were arrested Friday (June 18) after clashes with Israeli police at the Mosque Plaza in occupied East Jerusalem, where nine people were injured, police and rescue workers said.

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About 1,000 Palestinians gathered after Friday prayers on the esplanade, Islam's third holiest site and Judaism's holiest site, some waving Palestinian flags and chanting "

God is great,

" a reporter from the 'AFP on site. Protesters threw stones in the direction of the police, who broke into the esplanade whose entrances they guard, according to the journalist.

"

Several dozen young people began to disturb the order and to throw stones

" in the direction of the police, the police said in a statement, reporting ten arrests. Nine people were injured and three hospitalized, for injuries caused by "

beatings, rubber bullets and stun grenades

", according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

In early May, similar clashes on the esplanade located in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian sector of the city occupied and annexed by Israel, had been the prelude to an outbreak of violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

Clashes had taken place elsewhere in East Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, in mixed towns of Israel where Jews and Arabs live, and a war had broken out between the ruling Palestinian movement Hamas in the Strip. Gaza and the Hebrew State.

A fragile ceasefire came into effect on May 21 after 11 days of bloody conflict, in which 260 people were killed in Gaza, including fighters, according to authorities in the Palestinian enclave, and 13 in Israel, including a soldier, according to the police and the army.

Tensions in the Palestinian Territories

For the second time since the end of this lightning war, the Israeli air force bombed Hamas targets in the territory from Thursday to Friday in retaliation for launching incendiary balloons towards Israel.

Tensions also persist elsewhere in the Palestinian Territories.

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In the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by Israel, Palestinians demonstrate Friday against the establishment of an Israeli settlement near the village of Beita (north), where a Palestinian teenager was shot and wounded Wednesday by the Israeli army.

He succumbed to his injuries Thursday.

On Friday, 47 people were injured in Beita during a new protest against Israeli settlement, most by tear gas from the Israeli army, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Source: lefigaro

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