Al Aqsa Mosque Clashes: Israeli Police Detain 400, Injure 153 Plus

At least 153 people were hospitalized and 400 detained Friday in clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem. The Israeli police said that around 4 a.m., “dozens of masked young men” entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque, ignited projectiles and threw stones at the Western Wall. Eyewitnesses said that Palestinians threw stones at the Israeli security forces, who responded by firing rubber bullets and stun grenades. The clashes ended by noon on Friday and came during a time of severe tension boiling for three weeks, with deadly violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank, coinciding with the Jewish and Christian Passover and Ramadan.

Revered as one of Islam’s holiest sites, Al Aqsa Mosque is located atop a hill in the Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem in the Temple Mount or Haram esh-Sharif (Ar: الحرم الشريف). Over the years, clashes between the Israeli police and Palestinians around Temple Mount have been constant. An axis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Temple Mount houses significant religious holy sites for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, including the Dome of the Rock, Al Aqsa mosque, and the Western Wall. The Old City of East Jerusalem has been occupied by Israel since 1967. The Temple Mount clashes are the first since the start of this year’s Ramadan, a time when Muslim’s gather at the contested site.

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