The city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque witnessing a new occupation
17/03/2010 14:45
Violent clashes irrupted on Tuesday March 16, in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding neighborhoods, started by police provocations, who sent in mercenaries to ignite moot clashes with police, in order to disperse the peaceful demonstration organized by the Arab people of Jerusalem and the Arab people who came from all over the Arab localities inside the Green Line area.
It was a repeated occupation scenario for the city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa mosque by the Occupation forces. The police without further warning fired tear gases and rubber pullets on the demonstrators, as well as arrested dozens of young people and injured more than one hindered protesters. 91 of the casualties were hit by rubber pullets among them women and kids. Israeli media outlet pronounced that the Occupation forces arrested more than sixty people.
In the Aqsa mosque the situation was clam since early morning. However, the Occupation chose to tighten the siege around the Gates of the mosque, by sealing all the gates except three of them (Al-Nazir; Huttah and Al-Silsila Gates). In the same context the Occupation banned women and men alike who are under the age of fifty from entering the Aqsa mosque.
At ten am skirmishes irrupted near the Al-Nazir gate, a thing that led to several casualties, nevertheless Paramedics were not allowed to treat casualties. In the interim the Occupation forces sealed the Al-nazir gated and break into the African community neighborhood using Mechanized tools to destroy the gates of the houses for inspection.
Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday evening that at least one solders was lightly injured in his arm after he was hit by a hand gun pullet in the area of Ras al-Amud in occupied Jerusalem.
Concerning other neighborhoods of Jerusalem, dozens of young men attacked in the early hours of Tuesday, the military checkpoint at the entrance to the Shuafat camp north of occupied Jerusalem city and pelted soldiers with stones and Molotov cocktail, after they had trapped inside the barrier.
Clashes also broke out in the early hours of the morning in Issawiya, Ras Al-'amud and silwan village, where youths attacked with stones, in the town of Silwan, the Beit Yehonatan, special building which is home to dozens of settlers.
It was a repeated occupation scenario for the city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa mosque by the Occupation forces. The police without further warning fired tear gases and rubber pullets on the demonstrators, as well as arrested dozens of young people and injured more than one hindered protesters. 91 of the casualties were hit by rubber pullets among them women and kids. Israeli media outlet pronounced that the Occupation forces arrested more than sixty people.
In the Aqsa mosque the situation was clam since early morning. However, the Occupation chose to tighten the siege around the Gates of the mosque, by sealing all the gates except three of them (Al-Nazir; Huttah and Al-Silsila Gates). In the same context the Occupation banned women and men alike who are under the age of fifty from entering the Aqsa mosque.
At ten am skirmishes irrupted near the Al-Nazir gate, a thing that led to several casualties, nevertheless Paramedics were not allowed to treat casualties. In the interim the Occupation forces sealed the Al-nazir gated and break into the African community neighborhood using Mechanized tools to destroy the gates of the houses for inspection.
Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday evening that at least one solders was lightly injured in his arm after he was hit by a hand gun pullet in the area of Ras al-Amud in occupied Jerusalem.
Concerning other neighborhoods of Jerusalem, dozens of young men attacked in the early hours of Tuesday, the military checkpoint at the entrance to the Shuafat camp north of occupied Jerusalem city and pelted soldiers with stones and Molotov cocktail, after they had trapped inside the barrier.
Clashes also broke out in the early hours of the morning in Issawiya, Ras Al-'amud and silwan village, where youths attacked with stones, in the town of Silwan, the Beit Yehonatan, special building which is home to dozens of settlers.
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