Abbas discusses with the Jordanian monarch "dangerous conditions" in Jerusalem

112 Palestinians were wounded in a second night of clashes in Jerusalem ... and protests at Sheikh Jarrah

Palestinian casualties during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem have risen to nearly 300 since Friday.

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112 people have been injured since Saturday evening during the protests in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and the Israeli police, bringing the injuries to about 300 since Friday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, while the police announced that the number of injuries in their ranks increased to about 20.

In Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed with Jordanian King Abdullah II yesterday "dangerous conditions" in Jerusalem in light of the tension with Israel.

The injuries were distributed between the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where several families who live in it face the risk of evacuating their homes in favor of settlement associations, and Bab al-Amud is one of the main entrances to the Old City, where the Israeli police fired waste water cannons and rubber bullets at the protesters to disperse them.

Early in the morning, the Red Crescent Society rescued "21 injuries in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque," announcing that the injuries had increased since Saturday evening to 112 injuries.

Police said that they dispersed the protesters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood after they threw stones at its forces.

The protests renewed Saturday evening, after a difficult night of clashes that took place in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, and resulted in the injury of 200 protesters.

In Bab al-Amud, the Israeli police forces fired stun grenades to disperse the Palestinian protesters, who threw stones at the forces and set fire to a mobile police checkpoint.

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 threw stones at the Israeli security forces.

In Gaza, the Israeli army responded to launching a missile from the Strip by bombing what it described as a "military target" in the southern Gaza Strip.

Tear gas was also fired towards the Palestinian demonstrators near the border fence in the east of the Strip, where the demonstrators set fire to tires and launched incendiary balloons towards the other side.

In Jerusalem, the police confirmed in a statement yesterday, the arrest of nine protesters on charges of "disturbing public order, throwing stones and a smoke bomb, and attacking the police."

The statement also indicated the injury of "17 policemen who received field treatment by the police medical service."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the police response.

"We will not allow any extremist element to question the calm in Jerusalem ... We will not allow violent riots," he said at the start of the cabinet meeting yesterday.

"Israel will respond with force," Netanyahu added.

Netanyahu confirmed that Israel would continue building in Jerusalem, despite pressure he said was being exercised against it so that it would not be built in Jerusalem.

The events in Jerusalem were met with international calls for calm, as Pope Francis called yesterday for an end to the confrontations.

"I follow with special concern the events taking place in Jerusalem ... I pray that (Jerusalem) will be a meeting place, not a place of violent clashes, a place of prayer and peace," the Supreme Pontiff said in a message after Sunday prayers.

"I invite everyone to search for common solutions ... Violence only breeds violence," he said.

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The International Quartet on the Middle East (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations) expressed its "grave concern" over the violence in East Jerusalem, and urged "restraint."

"We are concerned about the provocative statements made by some political groups," she said in a statement.

For its part, the US State Department expressed its "deep concern about the confrontations taking place in Jerusalem, including in the Noble Sanctuary and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood."

Russia said that the confiscation of land and property in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, is a "violation of international law."

In Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed with Jordanian King Abdullah II yesterday "dangerous conditions" in Jerusalem in light of the tension with Israel.

A presidential statement said that Abbas and the Jordanian monarch discussed "the criminal attacks of the occupation forces against the safe worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and preventing the arrival of thousands of them to perform their religious duties during the holy month of Ramadan."

The statement added that "the systematic attacks on the Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah (in East Jerusalem), and the efforts to expel them from their homes and seize them for the benefit of the settlers," were discussed.

According to the statement, "It was agreed to continue coordination, joint action and action at all levels and in all forums, in order to stop the Israeli attacks."

Jordan had warned Israel against continuing its "barbaric" attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and demanded that it stop its "barbaric" attacks on worshipers in the mosque, and said that it would escalate international pressure on it.

The government of Jordan said in a statement, "The violations committed by the Israeli police and special forces against the mosque and attacks on worshipers are a barbaric, unacceptable and condemned act."

* Netanyahu affirms that construction will continue in Jerusalem despite the pressures ... and Pope Francis calls for an end to violence.

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