surveillance footage released by police appear to show masked mans smashing rocks overnight in preparation. by morning, palestinians say more than 150 people would be injured by rubber bullets. and grenades. among those injured a cameraman showing him beaten by police. and palestinians also injured hit by rocks, police said. at one point, israeli police entering the mosque itself, a move as a majorprovocation by m. they defended the action saying rock-throwers were jeopardizing it. it had been a city holding its breath in anticipation in a rarity, the holidays of ramadan, good friday, passover all overlap on the same day. in the middle of the night before the violence, the old city muslim residents gather for
provocation by muslims. police arrested more than 300 inside. i israel s foreign minister defended the actions saying rock throwers were jeopardizing worship. the holidays of ramadan, good friday all overlap on the same day. if the religious calendar had brought tensions, so too had recent events. the israeli army stepping up
steve: well, the reason exactly, the reason they did launch the tear gas and the pepper spray was because a number of the migrants part of the caravan by the way were throwing rocks, and then they were pushing women and children toward the front of the group. apparently they were forcing, according to some news reporting, forcing children to climb over the razor wire and lowering people down on the razor wire along the u.s. side of the fence. that s you when the border patrol intervened to make sure nobody got hurt. the pepper gas and tear gas was aimed at the rock throwers. not the people who were trying to burrow under that part of the old dilapidated fence. ainsley: one of the witnesses that was down there was standing in front of on the u.s. side of the fence. on the mexican side there was a big mound. you can kind of see it there he said that that s where everyone was standing. and that they were throwing, hurling rocks over the fence
we have several headlines to bripg you this morning, including an incident along the border where u.s. officials fired tear gas into mexico. customs and border protect says it was to target rock throwers, not the migrants trying to cross. a photographer who captured the pictures said he saw women, children and journalists affected by the gas. 25 migrants were detained. a manhunt going on for a man who shot and killed a 7-year-old girl in a parking lot. this little girl was sitting in a car with her mom and three other girls when someone pulled up and started firing off shots.
our border patrol chief, who was on the scene for the entire event in multiple places where these engagements occurred, did note that today. he stated that in an interview that we did see women and children being pushed to the front or included in the front of an assault group. not because they wanted them to get through first? women and children first? no. that s not my understanding of what he saw. he saw people throwing rocks right next to women and children. they did that actually behind members of the media as well. i have seen video of a scene where rock throwers are hiding behind camera people taking photographs of them while they are throwing the rocks. it was a really dynamic, challenging situation that our agents tried to resolve as safely as possible. they were successful overall. one more thing about what we are dealing with right now. that happened yesterday. there s no reason to believe it won t keep happening. because of the process that you are dealing with. you