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Palestinians run away from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem s Old City Monday, May 10, 202. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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JERUSALEM, Israel – Clashes broke out Monday morning between Israeli security forces and Palestinian rioters at the Al Aqsa complex at the Temple Mount. The Palestinian Red Crescent, part of the International Red Cross, says 278 Palestinians have been wounded so far during the clashes. More than 200 of them have been hospitalized.
Police say at least 12 cops have been injured, including Arab and Israeli civilians wounded from rocks hurled at them near the Old City.
May. 10, 2021
Turkey s foreign minister arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for talks aimed at overcoming a rift over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul that led to bitter recriminations and a Saudi boycott of Turkish goods.
Mevlut Cavusoglu was due to hold talks in the kingdom after years of tensions between the two regional powers, which are also at odds over Turkish support for Qatar in a dispute with its Gulf neighbors and over President Tayyip Erdogan s backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in Saudi Arabia.
Turkish officials had said Cavusoglu s visit could include talks on possible sales of Turkish drones to Saudi Arabia, which they said Riyadh had requested. The current violent clashes in Jerusalem may also overshadow the bilateral talks.
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In an effort to ease the situation, Israeli police banned Jewish groups from paying Jerusalem Day visits to the holy plaza that houses al-Aqsa, and which Jews revere as the site of biblical Jewish temples.
But a traditional Jerusalem Day march in which thousands of Israeli flag-waving Jewish youth walk through the Old City’s Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter looked set to go ahead.
At al-Aqsa, police fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets at hundreds of Palestinians who hurled rocks at them in the morning, witnesses said.
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ANKARA Turkey’s foreign minister arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for talks aimed at overcoming a rift over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul that led to bitter recriminations and a Saudi boycott of Turkish goods.
Mevlut Cavusoglu was due to hold talks in the kingdom after years of tensions between the two regional powers, which are also at odds over Turkish support for Qatar in a dispute with its Gulf neighbors and over President Tayyip Erdogan’s backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in Saudi Arabia.
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