At least 90 injured in 2nd day of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in Jerusalem, Palestinian Red Crescent says
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At least 90 people were injured as Palestinians and Israeli police clashed in Jerusalem for a second night Saturday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
All of the injured are Palestinian and most were hurt by rubber bullets or stun grenades, the Red Crescent said. At least 16 of the 90 injured have been taken to hospital.
That’s after as many as 205 people were injured at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque Friday,
when Israeli police in riot gear clashed with Palestinians following evening prayers, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
MORE violence is anticipated in Jerusalem tomorrow as Israel has given the go-ahead to a far-right parade asserting Israeli claims to the whole city, including occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Day is an Israeli national holiday commemorating its conquest of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
A nationalist parade in which marchers brandish Israeli flags as they troop through the Old City’s Damascus Gate and Palestinian neighbourhoods usually takes place, but senior Israeli officials warned that this year’s ought to be rerouted in light of the mood in the city following a weekend of savage police violence against Palestinians.
At least 100 injured in 2nd night of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in Jerusalem, Palestinian Red Crescent says
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At least 100 people were injured as Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem for a second night Saturday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
All of the injured were Palestinians and most were hurt by rubber bullets or stun grenades, the Palestinian Red Crescent said Sunday.
Ten of those injured were treated inside the compound of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque, five shot in the head with rubber bullets were treated in the field, four shot in the hands and foot were treated in the field and one injured in the face was taken to hospital, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.