90 wounded in a new night of violence in East Jerusalem
More than 90 people were injured in new clashes that broke out yesterday evening, Saturday, between the Israeli police and Palestinian protesters in a number of occupied East Jerusalem neighborhoods, after violent clashes took place between the two parties, especially on the Temple Mount, which left more than two hundred wounded.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent told Agence France-Presse: "90 people were wounded in the violent clashes that broke out on Saturday evening in the vicinity of the Old City in East Jerusalem."
The Palestinian Red Crescent stated that the vast majority of those wounded, including minors, were hit with rubber bullets or shrapnel from stun grenades, while an AFP photographer saw a Palestinian woman with a bloodied face.
The Israeli police used rubber bullets, stun grenades and water cannons to disperse the Palestinian demonstrators.
Some of the demonstrators threw stones and other projectiles at the Israeli security forces, which, according to the police, resulted in the injury of one of its members with injuries to the head.
On Saturday night, tens of thousands of Palestinians crowded the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque who prayed there.
The director of Al-Aqsa Mosque called on the worshipers to "calm," according to an AFP journalist.
In the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which has witnessed daily protests over recent days against the possible eviction of Palestinian families for the benefit of Israeli settlers, Palestinians took to the streets on Saturday evening, and the Israeli police announced that they had arrested two people for using "pepper spray" against their members.
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