The IDF says that there were dozens of rockets fired into Israel
Israel’s First Prime Minister: “What Happens in Jerusalem is a major crime against worshipers,” says Prime Minister Shtayyeh
Israeli officers beat people with their batons and rifle-butts, then arrested hundreds of Palestinians, as seen in video footage from inside the mosque. The police entered the mosque after hundreds of protesters barricaded themselves inside.
At least seven people were injured during clashes outside the walls of a Jerusalem mosque and at least two of them were transported to hospital with wounds sustained from rubber bullets and assault.
They locked the mosque’s doors and began chanting for violence inside from the inside, while obstacles and fortifications were present at the entrances.
The incident came in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which has seen hundreds of thousands of worshipers offer prayers at al-Aqsa. Jews are set to celebrate Passover on Wednesday evening.
It prompted condemnation from Palestinian leaders and other Arab countries. In a statement Wednesday, Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the actions of the Israeli police, saying: “What is happening in Jerusalem is a major crime against worshipers.”
“Israel does not want to learn from history, that Al-Aqsa is for the Palestinians and for all Arabs and Muslims, and that storming it sparked a revolution against the occupation,” Shtayyeh added.
Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza, called the clashes “an unprecedented crime,” according to Ismail Haniyeh, the Head of Hamas’ political bureau.
Israeli rockets fired from the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem have been killed in clashes with the Hezbollah militant group
Since 1924, the monarchy of Jordan has been the custodian of Jerusalem’s holiest sites in order to ensure the religious rights of Muslims and Christians in the city.
The mosque compound, frequently a flashpoint in tensions, is home to one of Islam’s most revered sites but also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount.
Dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in a major escalation that comes amid tensions over Israeli police raids at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
The military of the country said its fighter jets had struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
In the same period, at least 15 Israelis have been killed in attacks by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank, CNN records show – 14 civilians and a police officer who was hit by friendly fire after being stabbed by a Palestinian teenager while inspecting bus passengers.
In the wake of the attack, the northern airspace was closed. No deaths were reported as of Thursday afternoon, and it is not yet known which group in Lebanon launched the rockets.
The Lebanese army told CNN it had no information to release publicly yet; the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah told CNN it would not comment at the moment. A day earlier, the leader of Hamas in Palestine arrived in Lebanon for meetings with Hezbollah officials.
Since 1982, the conflict between Lebanon and Israel had been the biggest. Around 1,200 Lebanese people and 165 Israelis died in an exchange of fire that involved a nationwide Israeli aerial assault, and a naval and aerial blockade. Hezbollah fired many rounds of rockets reaching deep into Israeli territory during the conflict.
Israel assumed that Palestinian groups were behind the rocket attack that occurred this afternoon, according to an Israeli defense official quoted by CNN.
An official with the National News Agency said that Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon in response to the rockets had targeted the outskirts of Tyre.
The Israeli Defense Forces’ concern about the possibility of an increase in war between Lebanon and Israel: a conference report on ‘Infrared Cold War in the Near Future’
The Israel Defense Forces hosted a seminar in the spring of 2020 to brief journalists on their concern about the possibility of an increase in war between Lebanon and Israel.
