HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIANS INJURED AS ISRAELI FORCES RAID AL-AQSA COMPOUND

Mon 10 May 2021:

The latest violence comes as occupied East Jerusalem braces for a planned Jewish nationalist march through the city later on Monday.The annual Jerusalem Day Flag March marks the day East Jerusalem was occupied in 1967 and later annexed by Israel – in a move not recognised by the majority of the international community.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded, including a medic, and 50 others hospitalised.

“There are hundreds of people injured from the clashes,” the group said in a brief statement to journalists, adding its medical teams were prevented from accessing the scene of the violence.

Several videos showed tear gas canisters fired inside the Al Qibly Mosque, and stun grenades were fired on Palestinian women worshippers inside the Al Aqsa Mosque itself.

Al Aqsa is under attack right now. pic.twitter.com/mIs6WJoGuk

— Salem Barahmeh (@Barahmeh) May 10, 2021

This is what it looks like INSIDE Al Aqsa mosque right now. Israeli forces are shooting Palestinians, spraying tear gas, and throwing stun grenades with alarming frequency—all during the holiest time of the year for Muslims. pic.twitter.com/kgkbP46Not

— IMEU (@theIMEU) May 10, 2021

The occupation army continues to shoot Palestinian civilians at the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. The situation is very dangerous#AlAqsaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/s5pQd21aqA

— yousef (@cxzsyou) May 10, 2021

#IsraeliOccupation Stormed Al Aqsa mosque and attacked worshippers with stun grenades, rubber bullets, and tear gas and is now preventing the entry of medics PLEASE SHARE this is happening in real time!!#AlAqsa #Jerusalem #SheikhJarrah #IsraeliAttackonAlAqsa #SavePalestine pic.twitter.com/lNwvmksCI4

— #SaveSheikhJarrah لين (@NotLeenn) May 10, 2021

Violent clashes erupted after the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque
The confrontations began shortly after the Israeli occupation launched a drone over the mosque#القدس_ينتفض #لن_يمر_الإقتحام pic.twitter.com/GuhJ3hcM56

— Muslim (@Muslim98F16) May 10, 2021

Israeli authorities ‘must exercise maximum restraint’ : UN Secretary-General

UN chief Antonio Guterres believes Israel “must exercise maximum restraint and respect the right to freedom of peaceful assembly,” a UN spokesman said on Sunday, as tensions rise in East Jerusalem around al Aqsa, Islam’s third-holiest mosque.

“The Secretary-General expresses his deep concern over the continuing violence in occupied East Jerusalem, as well as the possible evictions of Palestinian families from their homes,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

“He urges Israel to cease demolitions and evictions.”

Guterres urged that the status quo at the holy sites be upheld and respected, Dujarric said.

Confrontations have been on going in recent days between Palestinians and Israeli police in parts of East Jerusalem, including in Sheikh Jarrah and outside the walled Old City, as well as in Haifa, a mixed Arab-Jewish city in northern Israel at the height of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The clashes have been sparked by the planned evictions of several Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, an area captured by Israel in a 1967 war.

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