Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman
Safadi, condemned attacks on Palestinians, saying in a tweet on Saturday: “We strongly
condemn the racist attacks on Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem & urge
prompt Int’l action to protect Jerusalemites. As the occupying power under
international law, Israel is responsible for stopping these attacks & for
the dangerous consequences of failing to do so.”
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Occupied East Jerusalem was on edge just after midnight on
Saturday as Palestinians faced off with Israeli occupation forces in nightly
Ramadan clashes that sparked rocket fire by militants in the Gaza
Strip and protests in Palestinian towns across the occupied West Bank,
Reuters reported on Saturday.
The arrests and injuries raised tensions that spilled over into Friday night
and early Saturday, when Palestinian youths again gathered outside the walled
Old City and scuffled with hundreds of Israeli occupation force members in riot
gear.
Palestinians pelted stones towards police firing water cannons. Others hurled
rocks at an Israeli court building and smashed security cameras.
The Palestine Red Crescent said eight Palestinians had been injured Friday
night in clashes with Israeli occupation forces, with two taken to hospital for
treatment.
Occupied Jerusalem is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli
authorities claim the whole city, including its eastern sector captured in a
1967 war, as its capital. Palestinians seek to make occupied East Jerusalem
capital of a future state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Clashes and incidents of violence have occurred nightly in Jerusalem - a city
holy to Muslims, Christians and Jews - since the start of Ramadan on April 13.
Palestinians say Israeli occupation forces have tried to prevent them from
holding their usual Ramadan evening gatherings outside Damascus Gate by
erecting metal barriers in its amphitheater-style plaza.
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