Occupied Jerusalem witnessed a new night of clashes that included several areas, which resulted in injuries and arrests among Palestinians, amid an anticipated show of settlers in the city, while the Palestinian anger expanded to include the Green Line and Gaza.
For a period of hours until about midnight on Monday, clashes erupted between demonstrators, Palestinians and the occupation forces in Bab al-Amud, Bab al-Sahira and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, against the backdrop of an Israeli plan to displace Palestinian Jerusalemite families from the neighborhood.
The Palestine Red Crescent said that 14 Palestinians were injured in Bab al-Amud and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, confirming that 4 of them were hospitalized.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that a Palestinian youth had been injured as a result of the occupation forces ’assault on him in Sheikh Jarrah, indicating that the occupation forces had arrested a number of demonstrators in Bab al-Amud.
The reporter also mentioned that the Israeli occupation forces sprayed Palestinians with wastewater.
In the context, the entrances to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem witnessed clashes between Palestinian and Israeli students against the backdrop of the escalation in the city, and the occupation forces threw sound and tear gas canisters to disperse the demonstrators, and arrested a number of Palestinian students.
Not far from Jerusalem, the occupation forces fired a barrage of tear gas canisters at demonstrators at the Beit El checkpoint between Ramallah and Al-Bireh, after Palestinian youths set fire to rubber tires.
Concurrently, Palestinians were suffocated during the dispersal of the occupation, and marches on the Gaza border went out to condemn the Israeli attacks in Jerusalem.
In the midst of the confrontations in occupied Jerusalem, the occupation forces suppressed protests in Nazareth and Haifa. Al-Jazeera correspondent said that two demonstrators were wounded and 18 arrested during a demonstration in Haifa in support of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
On the previous night, 112 Palestinians were injured in the confrontations with the occupation in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a toll reported by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Israel deployed several thousand troops to Jerusalem (European News Agency)
A security alert and the settlers' march
Meanwhile, the Israeli police reinforced its forces in Jerusalem and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque by about 3 thousand soldiers, and gave the green light to the "flag dance" procession, which is expected to take place today, Monday, in the occupied city, with the participation of 30,000 settlers, on the occasion of the so-called "Jerusalem unification" day.
The march is the most prominent of the settlers' ceremonial events, and it will start this afternoon in front of the Maman Allah cemetery west of the Old City, with the participants gathering there and walking towards the Damascus Gate, and it is expected that confrontations will take place with the Palestinian protesters in these areas.
The city is witnessing tight security measures in both the Old City and the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the occupation authorities paid military and security reinforcements at the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the occupation police forces deployed in various alleys of East Jerusalem, and iron barriers were erected.
The Israeli Supreme Court postponed its scheduled session today, Monday, to pronounce the ruling in the case of expelling Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, and the court announced that it would return to review the case within a month.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel "firmly rejects" the pressure to prevent it from building in Jerusalem, after increasing international condemnation of the planned displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Netanyahu added that in recent days he had conducted security and military sessions to assess the situation, and said that he would not allow "any extremist party to undermine the calm in Jerusalem."
Fires caused by incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip (Reuters)
Rockets from Gaza
On the other hand, the Israeli army said that the Iron Dome intercepted a missile yesterday evening, Sunday, in the sky of the city of Ashkelon, and that another missile fell in an open area after they were fired from the Gaza Strip.
Israeli media broadcast clips of the Iron Dome while trying to intercept rockets in the sky of Ashkelon, believed to have been launched from the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army spokesman also said that two rocket shells were unsuccessful from Gaza, adding that they fell within the borders of the Strip, indicating at the same time that incendiary balloons were launched from the Strip, which resulted in fires in agricultural areas near Israeli settlements.
In a related context, the Israeli army announced the closure of the sea field to fishermen off the coast of Gaza, in response to the launch of a missile on Saturday evening.