The clashes between Palestinian and Israeli police officers, who entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, have made a hundred wounded. Thursday evening, Israel chose to buckle the West Bank during the weekend, where telescope, rare, the holy month of Ramadan, the Christian Passover and the Jewish Passover.
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The Al-Aqsa mosque, in the old town of Jerusalem, was Friday, April 15 the theater of violent clashes that threaten to change the sequence of violence in which Israel and the Palestinian territories sink since the end March. The Israeli security forces deployed on the esplanade of the mosques (Mont du Temple for the Jews), on the second Friday of the Saint of Ramadan month, before dawn. They entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holy place of Islam, placing young Palestinians on the ground, on the carpets, and leading arrests. They also scattered with violence from the Palestinians on the surrounding esplanade, causing a hundred wounded by shots of metal racks of rubber, and with sticks. Three policemen were also wounded by stones.
Palestinians had spent the night in the mosque, determined to “defend itself”. They responded to a password of Palestinian factions, launched following a call of Jewish extremists to perform the ritual sacrifice of a lamb on the esplanade – an act that has not been completed for two millennia at the time of the second temple. This request, launched each year, is pure provocation. The Israeli police closely monitors these activists, who had no chance of reaching their ends.
But the tensions of the last weeks have given some echo to their project. The Israeli authorities maintain relatives full of mistrust and latent aggression with the WAQF, the guardian institution of the holy places, under Jordanian authority – despite multiple contacts with the monarchy in recent weeks.
Anger. growing
Since March 22, Israeli cities have undergone four terrorist attacks, perpetrated by isolated individuals, without orders, without support or networks, which have made 14 dead. The army responded by multiplying arrests at the heart of the cities of West Bank, as well as the retaliation measures against the relatives of the attackers.
Thursday evening, Israel chose to complete the West Bank during the weekend, where telescope, rare, the saint of Ramadan, the Christian Passover and the Jewish Passover. The army has deployed a massive contingent around the colonies, on the roads and especially around the wall that has been in the territories, occupied since 1967. Since the 22nd of March, these operations have made at least 25 Palestinian deaths, according to a statement of the Associated Press agency, including attackers. They arouse growing anger within the population.
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