2021-05-09 10:05:41 GMT2021-05-09 18:05:41(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JERUSALEM, May 9 (Xinhua) At least 100 Palestinians were injured in a series of clashes with Israel s police overnight and early on Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement.
Overnight between Saturday and Sunday, at least 90 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli police near the Old City s Damascus Gate and the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, both located in East Jerusalem, according to a Red Crescent statement.
The police said in a statement that they twice briefly evicted Jewish worshipers from the Western Wall, a Jewish holy place in East Jerusalem, after Palestinians hurled firecrackers at the site. No injuries were reported.
An Israeli border policeman aims a weapon near the scene of a security incident at an Israeli military base near Jenin in the West Bank, May 7, 2021. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
i24 News – The Palestinian terrorists gunned down by Israeli security forces on Friday were set out to perpetrate a “major” terrorist attack within Israel, security officials said.
The firefight broke outside a Border Police base near the West Bank-Israel border by the northern Palestinian city of Jenin.
Israeli border policemen were inspecting a bus of Palestinian workers crossing into Israel illegally when the terrorists opened fire; Israeli troops killed two members of the terror cell and critically wounded the third.
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Elsewhere in the region, Lebanon ordered residents not to leave their homes except for urgent necessities and even closed down Beirut’s famous Mediterranean boardwalk. Muslim authorities indefinitely closed the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam, with prayers continuing to be held on the sprawling esplanade outside.
Members of Israeli border police patrol near the scene of a security incident at an Israeli military base near Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 7, 2021. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
Three Palestinian gunmen shot at an Israeli border police base in the West Bank on Friday, drawing Israeli fire that killed two of the Palestinians and critically wounded the third, border police said.
There were no reports of Israeli injuries in the incident at the Salem base, near the West Bank-Israel border by the northern Palestinian city of Jenin.
Border police said in a statement that the three Palestinians “fired at the base’s gate, (and) border police officers and an (Israeli military) soldier responded by firing and neutralizing” them.
Israel says Europe aid funds diverted to Palestinian militant group
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Last Updated: May 07, 2021, 03:24 PM IST
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Money from Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Sweden, Spain and the EU had been diverted to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated a terrorist group by several Western states.
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Supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) protest in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on May 5, 2021 against an Israeli court s decision to evict several Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem
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