Clashes again erupted between Palestinians and Israeli security forces on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. According to AFP, hundreds of people were injured, AP writes that 50 people were hospitalized. Riots in the Old City of Jerusalem began on April 22nd after the evening prayer in the month of Ramadan and later resumed in May. More than 200 people were injured in clashes last week.
This morning, May 10, riots broke out on the territory of the al-Aqsa mosque. According to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post, several Palestinians began throwing stones at Israeli police officers, who responded with stun grenades. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters, according to the Palestinian agency WAFA. Several people were injured, their exact number is not given. A local Red Cross spokesman told the agency that police refused to allow humanitarian workers to enter the mosque to evacuate the wounded.
The Israeli police said in a statement that the Palestinians were the initiators of the clashes. “The Police Commissioner ordered the security forces to enter the Temple Mount and repel the rebels,” according to the police account in Twitter.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed the Israeli government for escalating the conflict in Jerusalem. Concern over the situation in Jerusalem was expressed by Russia, the United States, the EU and the UN. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on the world community to stop “lawlessness in East Jerusalem,” and Israel, in his opinion, must apologize.
Read about the growth of tension in the region in the material of “Kommersant” “New Battle for Jerusalem.”
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