The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that more than 100 Palestinians were injured during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces and extremist settlers in the vicinity of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, while the Palestinian Presidency called on the international community to protect the Palestinians in the city.

The Red Crescent confirmed that the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the Palestinians, wounding 105, and transporting 30 of them to Jerusalem hospitals for treatment.

The Al-Jazeera camera monitored the moment when the Israeli occupation soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinians in the areas of Bab Al-Amud, Al-Misrara and Bab Al-Sahira in occupied Jerusalem.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Guevara Al-Budairi said, "The Israeli occupation soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinians in the areas of Bab Al-Amud, Al-Misrara and Bab Al-Sahira in occupied Jerusalem."

The occupation forces strengthened their presence in the Old City to force the Palestinians to leave after performing the Tarawih prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of preventing friction between worshipers and settlers who had mobilized to attack the Palestinians, claiming to respond to a Palestinian attack that occurred days ago.

Bloody confrontations

And in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, dozens of Israeli settlers tried to attack Palestinian homes by throwing stones at them, but the existing residents confronted them, according to eyewitnesses.

Witnesses reported that settlers smashed windows of dozens of cars on Al-Mutran Street in the neighborhood, and damaged other tires.

Israeli settlers also attacked Jerusalemites in the French Hill neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem, without causing injuries, according to eyewitnesses.

In the same context, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that hundreds of Israeli settlers - who belong to the right-wing Lahava movement - tried to reach the Bab al-Amud area in central Jerusalem, chanting the "Death to the Arabs" and threatening to kill the Palestinians.

However, the newspaper indicated that the Israeli police prevented them from reaching the Bab al-Amud area and the Arab areas, in the presence of thousands of Palestinians.

The city of Jerusalem in general and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular have been witnessing since the beginning of the current month of Ramadan, skirmishes between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces due to recent attempts to prevent annual Ramadan gatherings and activities in the city center.

Formal denunciation

In turn, the presidency expressed its strong condemnation and condemnation of what settlers and right-wing extremist groups are doing to incite the killing of Arabs, and with the protection of the Israeli army and police.

In a statement published by the official Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), it called on the international community to protect our people in Jerusalem from the oppression of settlers and their criminal attacks, and held the Israeli government fully responsible for this dangerous deterioration.

The Palestinian presidency said that "East Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine, and it is a red line."

For his part, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, Hussein al-Sheikh, said, "What is happening in Jerusalem in terms of a heroic response to the settlers is a battle for sovereignty and insistence on the Palestinian territories, our eternal capital.

He added in a tweet on his Twitter account that this is the real battle in defense of our Jerusalem and our sanctities.

Israel considers Jerusalem, in both its eastern and western parts, as its unified and eternal capital, while the Palestinians hold on to East Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state based on international legitimacy resolutions that do not recognize Israel's occupation of the city in 1967 or its annexation in 1981.