(Jerusalem) Clashes late Sunday evening between Palestinians and Israeli police in East Jerusalem left a dozen injured, according to rescuers and security forces, who confirmed arrests.
Posted at 4:49 p.m.
An AFP photographer noted the throwing of projectiles at the security forces, tear gas and stun grenades by the police in front of Damascus Gate, one of the main access routes to the Muslim quarter of the city. Old City of Jerusalem.
Israeli police reported ten arrests and one officer injured in what they described as “riots” occurring on the sidelines of large gatherings at the Esplanade des Mosques, Islam’s third holiest site also known as Mount of the Temple by the Jews, on the occasion of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which begins this weekend. The Palestinian Red Crescent has counted eleven wounded among the demonstrators.
Earlier Sunday, the head of Israeli diplomacy Yaïr Lapid went to this district of East Jerusalem, a sector of the Holy City occupied since 1967 by Israel, in order to support the thousands of Israeli police deployed during Ramadan, after a series of deadly attacks that have left 11 dead in the past two weeks in Israel.
“Times are difficult, the situation is tense, but we have police forces that we can trust to get through this complex period,” said Mr. Lapid on the spot.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with army leaders to take stock of military operations in Jenin, a sector in the north of the West Bank where the Palestinian who opened fire on civilians and killed five people came from. last week in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
At least five Palestinians, including fighters from Islamic Jihad, the second Palestinian armed Islamist group, have been killed since Thursday in these Israeli army operations in the northern West Bank.
Last year, clashes in East Jerusalem during the Ramadan period culminated in an 11-day war between Hamas, the first Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, and in power in the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army.