Shocking images of violence from Jerusalem: Israeli driver falls on Palestinians

The situation in Jerusalem is dire, where they occurred today new collisions with stones, tear gas and rubber-coated bullets.

Loyal Palestinians and Israeli police clashed in East Jerusalem Mosque Square, injuring more than 300 people, most of them Palestinians, after a weekend of violence in the holy city.

Shocking images of violence that see the light of day. In fact, a video records the dramatic moments when an Israeli car crashes into Palestinians, who had previously attacked him with stones. The car stops and a policeman with his gun arrives.

Ahead of this escalation, a meeting is scheduled for later today, at the request of Tunisia. UN Security Council on the situation in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian sector that has been under Israeli occupation for more than 50 years.

As international calls for calm multiplied, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the “determination” of law enforcement to guarantee “stability” in Jerusalem. “We support them in this fair fight,” he stressed.

For its part, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority has denounced a “barbaric attack” by Israeli forces, and the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, has warned that Palestinian “resistance” will not be “left in the hands”.

Early in the afternoon, the clashes stopped in the square, the third holiest place of Islam located in the Old City and access to it was limited during the day only to believers aged 40 and over. But the situation remains tense.

Early in the morning, hundreds Palestinians fired at Israeli forces who had taken up positions inside the Mosque Square, a French Agency reporter found. Police responded with rubber-coated bullets and tear gas.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, more than 305 Palestinians were injured, more than 200 of whom were evacuated by ambulance and taken to hospitals.

Dr. Adnan Farhud, general manager of McCassidt Hospital, spoke of numerous injuries to the face and eyes from rubber-coated bullets

“Something serious”

“We are afraid that something serious will happen today,” said Dr. Farhoud speaking to Agence France-Presse, while seven patients are in critical condition, according to the Red Crescent and as broadcast by French and Athenian News Agency.

Israeli police guarding access to the square, which is called the Temple Mount by Jews, said at least nine people were injured in the clashes. He warned that he would not allow “extremists to threaten the security of the public”.

The repetition of the violence coincided with “Her Day JerusalemWhich marks, according to the Jewish calendar, the conquest of East Jerusalem by the Jewish state and is often characterized by clashes between Palestinians and Israelis.

Israel has declared Jerusalem its “eternal and indivisible” capital, while the Palestinians aspire to make the eastern sector the capital of the state they aspire to establish. The Jerusalem issue is an obstacle to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, which have been dead for years.

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