Israeli forces injured 19 Al-Aqsa mosque guards on Sunday during renewed clashes at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
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The Palestinians, equipped with stones, wooden planks, flares and firebombs, had barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, the police said in a statement.
The police said that a number of officers were injured.
On Saturday, Israeli apartment renters sternly beaten a Palestinian youngster near essentially the throughways causing AlovervallenAqsa Mosque intricate inside of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Al-Aqsa is the Muslims’ first Qiblah [direction Muslims take during prayers] and it is the third holiest shrine after Al Ka’bah in Makkah and Prophet Muhammad’s Mosque in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
Qalandiya residents said Abu Latifa was a member of the Fatah political party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but that they had no knowledge of him having any affiliation with armed factions within the party.
Jewish ultranationalists have been pushing the Israeli government to enable Jewish prayer on the compound outside al-Aqsa, which stands previously mentioned the Western Wall. Jews refer to the site as the Temple Mount. Access to the site was later restricted.
The compound is considered a holy site in both Islam and Judaism, and its administration reflects the hard balance between the constituents in the region.
Among those angered by the violence was Khaled Tuffaha, a 46-year-old Palestinian shop owner, who told the AFP that the protesters were willing to give their lives.
Border police forces entered the Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah to arrest two “suspected terror activists”, police said. “Everybody is ready to die”.
Police said that a young Jewish man attempted to enter while wearing phylacteries – small leather boxes containing sacred texts worn by observant men during morning prayer.
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Palestinians, meanwhile, seek to make East Jerusalem the capital of a Palestinian state, something that Israelis overwhelmingly oppose and work politically to prevent.
