Conflicts between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police broke out this morning at Mosque Square in Jerusalemsaid eyewitnesses and ambulances.
“Seven wounded were taken to hospital,” a Palestinian Red Crescent official told AFP when asked about the incidents at the third holiest site for Islam, known as the Temple Mount in Judaism tradition.
The episodes broke out two weeks after beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.
The Israeli police announced that their forces entered the area to disperse a crowd throwing stones against a place of prayer in the Western Wall, a short distance away.
According to eyewitnesses, police used plastic bullets against Palestinian protesters.
Mosque Square is located in the Old City of East Jerusalem, the Palestinian sector occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. The sector is often the scene of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters.
During Ramadan 2021, nighttime demonstrations in Jerusalem and riots in the square led to the outbreak of war between Israel and the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
Typically, the Mosque Square is managed by Jordan. But access to the site is controlled by Israeli security forces.
Shortly before the start of Ramadan this year (April 2), Israeli and Jordanian officials made several contacts to prevent further unrest.
The incidents in the heart of Jerusalem came after a series of attacks in Israel and Israeli attacks in the West Bank, another occupied Palestinian territory.
Since March 22, four attacks have been carried out in Israel, the first two by Israeli Arabs affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization, the other two by Palestinians of Jenin descent in the West Bank.
These attacks resulted in fourteen deaths. On the other hand, at least 21 Palestinians, among the perpetrators of the attacks, have been killed in the same period, according to the count of the French Agency.
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