Jerusalem: Clashes erupt at contested holy site

Israeli constabulary person clashed with dozens of Palestinian worshippers astatine Jerusalem's contested beatified site.

Police accidental they conducted a pre-dawn raid aft what they called "agitators" with fireworks, sticks and stones unopen themselves wrong the al-Aqsa mosque.

Palestinians accidental 14 radical were wounded aft the constabulary utilized stun grenades and rubber bullets to wide retired the group.

At slightest 9 rockets were aboriginal fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, with aerial alert sirens sounding adjacent Sderot.

The Israeli service said 5 rockets were intercepted, and different 4 "landed successful unfastened areas".

No radical has truthful acold claimed work - but it is believed that the militant radical Hamas approved the firing.

Hamas' lawman caput Saleh Al-Arouri warned that "attacking Islamic sanctities volition person a large terms and we volition pain the crushed nether their [Israeli] feet".

The clashes successful Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem started aft a fig of Palestinian worshippers had barricaded themselves successful the mosque aft Ramadan prayers.

Footage taken from wrong the mosque seemingly shows fireworks being fired by the protesters. Israeli constabulary accidental stones were thrown astatine them, injuring 1 constabulary officer.

Another video appears to amusement Israeli constabulary beating Palestinians with sticks.

The Palestinian Red Crescent aboriginal said that Israeli forces were preventing its medics from reaching the mosque.

Palestinian militants had earlier called for Muslims to fastener themselves successful the mosque to forestall Jewish worshippers from sacrificing a goat for Passover, that begins connected Wednesday.

The hilltop tract successful Jerusalem is the astir ineffable spot successful Judaism and the 3rd holiest successful Islam. It is known to Jews arsenic the Temple Mount, tract of 2 Biblical temples, and to Muslims arsenic Haram al-Sharif, the tract of Muhammad's ascent to Heaven.

The full compound is considered to beryllium al-Aqsa Mosque by Muslims, but the latest clashes were wrong the mosque gathering itself.

Jews and different non-Muslims are allowed to spell to the compound but not pray, though Palestinians spot visits by Jews arsenic attempts to alteration the delicate presumption quo.