42 wounded in clashes in the mosque square

Rescuers said that the clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli police left 42 wounded, but their injuries were not serious, this Friday morning, April 29, in the courtyard of mosques, the focus of tension in central Jerusalem.

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“42 others were wounded in clashes with the occupation forcesThe Palestinian Red Crescent declared, on the battlefield located in East Jerusalem, in the Palestinian sector occupied by Israel. An initial assessment reported 12 injuries. Of the 42 wounded, 22 were taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, but “None of them are in serious conditionPalestinian Red Crescent said.

from “trouble makers” You have “throw stonesWhich prompted the occupation police to enter the park and use it.”Ways to break up the crowd“, the police said in a press release. Eyewitnesses reported that the police immediately fired rubber bullets, and also fired tear gas canisters.

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More than 250 have been infected in the past two weeks

Over the past two weeks, violent clashes have left more than 250 Palestinians injured in and around the courtyard of the mosque, which is the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism known as the Temple Mount. These clashes raised fears of a further escalation between the Israelis and the Palestinians, against the backdrop of the bloody attacks against Israel and the Israeli military operations that were punctuated by bloody clashes in the occupied West Bank since the end of March. The new clashes come as worshipers celebrate the last Friday of the blessed month of Ramadan, which is scheduled to end early next week.

This Friday is tooQuds Scientific Dayannual day ofdefenseJerusalem, which was initiated by Iran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Islamic movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are close to Iran, organized a rally in the Gaza stadium to celebrate this day and called forDefense“Jerusalem and the Mosque Square. General Hossein Salami, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, participated in the event via videoconference and emphasized that “The State of Israel will be defeated“.

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