Regain of tensions in Israel. Clashes erupted Sunday, August 11, between Israeli police and Palestinian worshipers on the esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem, the first day of Eid al-Adha, according to an AFP journalist on the spot. The Palestine Red Crescent has reported wounded, without figures, during the clashes.
Due to these tensions, the Israeli police also blocked the site's access to Jews who commemorate the same day a major religious holiday, Ticha Beav, which commemorates the date of the destruction of their two Temples - by the Babylonians, in 587 BC, then by the Romans, in the year 70.
Tensions at the Gaza border in recent days
Meanwhile, a Palestinian opened fire on Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border on Sunday before being killed in the riposte. This is the third deadly shootout on the edge of the Palestinian enclave in recent days, officials said.
The Israeli army said it "neutralized" this man who had "approached the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip", territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas, and "opened fire" on his soldiers.
"Following this incident, an Israeli tank fired at a military post of the Hamas terrorist organization in the same area," the army said, adding that there were no casualties on the side. Israeli troops.
The Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed the death of the 26-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, whose body was taken to a local hospital.
On Saturday, the Israeli army said it had killed four Palestinians armed with assault rifles, rocket launchers and grenades who had tried to infiltrate Israel from the southern Gaza Strip.
Finally, on 1 August, two Israeli soldiers were slightly wounded and an officer hit more severely by the fire of a Palestinian who crossed the border, according to the army, and was later killed by soldiers.
With AFP