Israel said its forces had come in to remove stones and stones that had been collected in anticipation of the violence. The shrine, which is sacred to Jews and Muslims, has often been the focus of Israeli-Palestinian unrest, and tensions have already risen amid a recent wave of violence. Clashes on the spot last year helped spark an 11-day war with Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip. Conflicts come at a particularly sensitive time. Ramadan this year coincides with Easter, a major Jewish weekly holiday that begins on Friday at sunset, and the Christian holy week, which culminates on Easter Sunday. The festivities are expected to bring tens of thousands of worshipers to the Old City of Jerusalem, home to important sites sacred to all three religions. Clashes between Palestinian and Israeli security forces on Friday morning. Photo: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty Images Videos circulating on the Internet show Palestinians hurling stones and fireworks and police firing tear gas and stun grenades into the vast adventure surrounding the mosque. Others showed worshipers trapped inside the mosque itself amidst tears of tears. The Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency Service said it had treated 117 people, many of whom had been injured by rubber bullets or stun grenades or by bats. The legacy said one of the guards at the scene was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet. Israeli police said three police officers were injured in “huge stone-throwing” and two were removed from the scene for treatment. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said dozens of masked men carrying Palestinian and Hamas flags marched on the compound in the early hours of Friday and collected stones. “Police were forced to enter the area to disperse the crowd and remove stones and rocks in order to prevent further violence,” he said on Twitter. Police said they waited until the prayers were over and the crowds began to disperse. In a statement, she said crowds began throwing stones in the direction of the Western Wall, a nearby Jewish shrine, forcing them to act. They said they did not enter the mosque itself. The Palestinians see any major police deployment in al-Aqsa as a major challenge. Israeli National Security Minister Omer Barlev, who oversees the police force, said Israel was “not interested” in the violence at the shrine, but that police had to deal with “violent elements” who stoned them to death. rods. He said Israel was committed to freedom of worship for both Jews and Muslims. Police said Friday prayers at the mosque – when tens of thousands of people were expected – would be held as usual. The mosque is the third holiest place in Islam. It is built on the top of a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem which is the holiest place for the Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount because it was the site of the Jewish temples in antiquity. It has been a major hotbed of violence between Israelis and Palestinians for decades and has been the focus of the 2000-2005 Palestinian intifada or uprising. Tensions have risen in recent weeks following a series of attacks by Palestinians that have killed 14 people inside Israel. Israel has carried out a wave of arrests and military operations in the occupied West Bank, sparking clashes with Palestinians. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says a 17-year-old died early Friday morning from injuries sustained during clashes with Israeli forces in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, the previous day. Rescuers remove one injured during the clashes. Photo: Hazem Bader / AFP / Getty Images At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in the recent wave of violence, according to the Associated Press, many of whom have been attacked or involved in clashes, as well as an unarmed woman and a lawyer who appears to have been killed by mistake. Weeks of protests and clashes in Jerusalem during Ramadan last year sparked an 11-day war with the Islamic State militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. Israel had lifted the restrictions and taken other measures to try to defuse tensions ahead of Ramadan, but attacks and military strikes have sparked another round of unrest. Hamas condemned the “violent attacks” it said on worshipers in al-Aqsa by Israeli forces, saying that Israel would bear “all the consequences”. He called on all Palestinians to “stand by our people in Jerusalem.” Earlier this week, Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza called on Palestinians to camp at al-Aqsa Mosque over the weekend. The Palestinians have long feared that Israel was planning to occupy the site or separate it. Israeli authorities say they have pledged to maintain the status quo, but in recent years nationalist and religious Jews have visited the site in large numbers accompanied by police. Israel occupied East Jerusalem, home to al-Aqsa and other important holy sites, in the 1967 war and annexed it in an internationally unrecognized movement. The Palestinians want the eastern part of the city to be the capital of a future independent state, including the West Bank and Gaza, which was also occupied by Israel during the war almost 55 years ago.
