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Gaza / Tel Aviv (dpa) - Militant Palestinians fired rockets again on Monday at the Israeli border area.
In the border town of Sderot and other localities, according to the military, the warning sirens wailed in the morning.
Three projectiles were fired.
One of them apparently intercepted the iron dome missile defense.
On Sunday evening, Palestinian militants had already fired four rockets in the direction of Israel.
In addition, explosive and incendiary balloons were sent over the border facility.
Israeli tanks then fired at bases of the Islamist Hamas ruling in the Gaza Strip.
Israel also closed the Erez crossing to the Palestinian Territory.
On Sunday evening, after a new escalation of violence, Israel had already closed the fishing zone in front of the Gaza Strip until further notice.
At the same time as the escalation of violence, especially in East Jerusalem, attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have recently increased again.
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With a view to Israeli Jerusalem Day on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that religious freedom would be upheld for all, but that violence would not be tolerated.
On Jerusalem Day, Israel celebrates the conquest of the East with the Old City during the Six Day War in 1967. The Palestinians see East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state of their own.
On Monday night there were new confrontations between Palestinians and the Israeli police in the city.
According to police, demonstrators threw stones and bottles at security forces at the Damascus Gate.
According to media reports, they then used stun grenades and water cannons to break up the riot.
Clashes also broke out again in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
Protests have been reported in several other cities, including the Israeli port city of Haifa, where arrests have been made after demonstrators attempted to break a police cordon.
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In violent clashes with Israeli security forces, around 300 Palestinians and around 20 police officers have been injured in the old town since Friday.
Fearing renewed violence between the two sides, the Israeli police forbade Jews on Monday from visiting the Temple Mount (Al-Haram al-Sharif / The Noble Sanctuary) during flag marches through the Old City.
The situation in the West Bank and in the Arab-dominated eastern part of Jerusalem has been tense since the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Many Palestinians are angry because the police cordoned off areas of the old city to prevent gatherings.
In addition, some Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are threatened with evictions by Israeli authorities.
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The Islamist Hamas has declared its solidarity with the demonstrators.
Hamas flags were recently waved during Ramadan prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
The US government expressed concern about the situation in Jerusalem.
The national security advisor to US President Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, stressed in a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Meir Ben-Shabbat that the US is trying to de-escalate, the White House announced on Sunday (local time).
The US is concerned about possible evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah district.
The shelling of Israel from the Gaza Strip is unacceptable.
UN Secretary General António Guterres is calling on Israel to exercise “maximum restraint”, said a UN spokesman in New York on Monday night.
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