The Israeli forces surrounded thousands of worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and tried to empty its chapels with violence, causing the deaths of about 180 Palestinians, and the Palestinian presidency demanded international protection, while the factions vowed to respond.

The Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the occupation soldiers surrounded about 3 thousand worshipers in the Al-Qibli prayer hall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in an attempt to evacuate them, but the youths closed the doors, while the soldiers mounted the roofs of the mosque and fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to speed up the evacuation.

Al-Jazeera correspondent also reported that the occupation authorities are hindering the work of Palestinian medical teams in Al-Aqsa, Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and Qalandia checkpoint in Jerusalem.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced that the number of injuries in the Al-Aqsa clashes had risen to 178, and activists confirmed that there were serious injuries inside the besieged mosque.

The Red Crescent Society confirmed that its crews are trying to reach Jerusalem from the West Bank, but the occupation forces and its checkpoints are obstructing it, adding that it has opened a field hospital in Jerusalem to deal with injuries transferred from Al-Aqsa Mosque.

On the other hand, the official Israeli "Kan" channel said that 6 members of the Israeli police were injured during the confrontations, and described the wounds of one of them as moderate, as a result of Palestinian youths throwing stones and empty bottles at them.

Al-Jazeera office director Walid al-Omari said that there are calls for demonstrations in Jerusalem, denouncing the suppression of the occupation by the Palestinian forces inside the Green Line.

The Al-Qibli prayer hall is part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and one of its landmarks. It is a covered building topped by a lead-colored dome, and it is located south of it, facing the direction of the qiblah.

Part of the confrontations between Palestinian youths and occupation soldiers (Reuters)

Denunciations and Claims

In the face of the Israeli attack on Al-Aqsa and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, and the official Palestinian News Agency stated that Abbas directed the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations to request an urgent session of the Security Council against the background of the developments in Jerusalem.

Abbas held - in a televised speech - "the Israeli occupation government is fully responsible for the dangerous developments and sinful attacks that are taking place in the Holy City, and the consequences thereof," adding that "the oppression and terror of the settlers will only increase our insistence on adhering to our legitimate rights to end the occupation," And the attainment of freedom and independence, and the establishment of an independent and fully sovereign Palestinian state with its eternal capital, Jerusalem.

In a related context, Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh described what is happening in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood as a "new form of the systematic Israeli policy of displacement," welcoming the United Nations and 5 European countries' demand that Israel not evacuate the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

In a statement, the Palestinian National Council called on Arabs and Muslims to raise their stances towards the "brutal" Israeli attacks. The Council also called on the international community not to be satisfied with its traditional verbal stances, and to move urgently to curb this aggression, as he put it.

In turn, the Fatah movement called on the Arab League, the United Nations and the international community to intervene to stop the aggressive policy of the occupation government, according to its description.

The occupation soldiers in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa (Reuters)

The factions are threatening

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that "the occupation will pay the price for its aggression and its blatant violation of the right of Muslims to pray in their mosque."

The head of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said, “The enemy commits stupidities in Jerusalem and does not know their results.” He directed his message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “Do not play with fire.

In a televised speech, Haniyeh called on the countries that normalized with the Israeli government to end the normalization agreements and close their embassies in Israel.

Haniyeh considered that what is happening "an intifada must continue and will not stop," and he also promised that the movement would defend Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, regardless of the sacrifices, he said.

For his part, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad Nakhaleh, said that what is happening in Jerusalem "cannot be tolerated, and the enemy must expect our response at any moment." With their mosque. "