THE ISRAELI POLICE INTERVENES IN AL AQSA IN THE FULL OF RAMADAN

Israeli police announced on Wednesday that they had "arrested more than 350 people" during the violent clashes which pitted them overnight against what they described as "rioters" in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.


These clashes, inside one of the most emblematic Muslim places of worship in the world, occurred as Muslims arrive in the middle of Ramadan in a particularly tense atmosphere between Israelis and Palestinians since the beginning of the year.

Israeli police announced on Wednesday that they had "arrested more than 350 people" during the violent clashes which pitted them overnight against what they described as "rioters" in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

 

These clashes, inside one of the most emblematic Muslim places of worship in the world, occurred as Muslims arrive in the middle of Ramadan and Jews celebrate Passover from Wednesday evening, in a particularly tense atmosphere between Israelis and Palestinians since the beginning of the year.

 

Denouncing "an unprecedented crime", the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank "to go en masse to the al-Aqsa mosque to defend it".

 

It is located on the esplanade of the Mosques, the third holiest site in Islam, in the Palestinian sector of the Holy City occupied and annexed by Israel. Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh said "the level of brutality [by the Israeli police] required urgent Palestinian, Arab and international action.

Jordan, which administers Muslim holy sites condemned the "storming" of the mosque and called on Israeli forces to withdraw immediately, while Saudi Arabia said its "categorical rejection" of actions violating "international principles and norms relating to respect for the sacred.



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