Live coverage of Israel-Palestine: Police enter Al-Aqsa for a second night.

 

For the second night in a row, Israeli police have attacked the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, firing rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenades at Palestinian worshipers.

Armed soldiers are shown forcefully removing worshipers who had congregated in the mosque for Ramadan prayers in videos taken on the scene.

The violence broke out amid widespread calls for calm, hours after more than 400 individuals were detained and taken away during a police raid at the property.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the most recent raid left at least six individuals injured.

CEIRPP of the UN condemns Israeli raids

The Israeli police raids on Palestinian worshipers within Al-Aqsa mosque have been denounced by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Bureau of the United Nations General Assembly.

In a statement, the agency said that Israel’s unlawful acts and policies “have continued to reinforce its illegal occupation of the Palestinian areas it has occupied since 1967.”

It demanded that Israel be held accountable for its transgressions in the occupied Palestinian land and compelled Israel to uphold its commitments under international law and UN resolutions.

According to established guidelines, “the bureau urges for respecting the freedom of all worshipers to enter the sacred places,” it stated.

Israel frees 397 Palestinians captured during the operation on Tuesday.

According to a statement from the Palestinian Council of Detainees Affairs, at least 397 of the 450 Palestinians who were detained by Israeli police during a raid on Tuesday night have been freed with a one-week restriction from visiting the Al-Aqsa mosque.

Six Palestinians from the occupied city of Jerusalem have had their custody and questioning prolonged, while 47 inmates from the occupied West Bank have been sent to the military prison of Ofer.

“The conditions of arrest and incarceration are humiliating and inhumane, and no medical help is being supplied to the injured convicts,” the panel said in its findings.

Israeli police limit Palestinian men’s access to mosques

Israeli police are preventing Palestinian males under the age of 40 from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque, according to witnesses who spoke to the new planet

A guy traveled two hours from northern Israel to arrive in time for Fajr (dawn) prayer but claimed that he was not permitted into the mosque.

200 people had gathered outside the mosque since they were not informed of the policy change.

Palestinians in Gaza link Israeli violence with Ramadan

When Israeli police used force twice in one night in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa mosque, tensions are high in the Gaza Strip.

topnewsplanet stated from Gaza that “there is a significant feeling of concern among the people here since they equate Ramadan with memories of bloodshed.”

Israeli soldiers have attacked worshipers at the third holiest place in Islam in recent years during the month of Ramadan, preventing them from staying the night inside the mosque for i’tikaf, the Islamic custom of spending a few days inside a mosque during Ramadan.

During Ramadan, Sayed said, “Israeli soldiers attack the Al-Aqsa mosque, inciting the passions of Muslims and Palestinians alike.”

Four Palestinian protesters are detained by Israeli police in Umm Al-Fahm.

Israeli police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Palestinian protesters in the Israeli communities of Umm Al-Fahm and Baqa al-Gharbiyeh on Wednesday night.

At Umm Al-Fahm, at least four Palestinians were detained as demonstrations also erupted in Haifa, Nazareth, Kufr Kanna, and Arrabeh.

Israeli settlers enter the Al-Aqsa mosque while being guarded by police

Under the cover of the Israeli police, dozens of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Thursday morning. Palestinian worshipers were earlier denied access to the mosque for Fajr prayer by Israeli police.

According to local media, hundreds of Palestinians said Fajr prayers close to Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Report on further rocket launches from Gaza

Early on Thursday morning, six rockets were fired into Israel from Palestinian organizations in Gaza, according to the Times of Israel.

The publication said that two of the missiles were shot in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea and five were fired toward Israel, citing the Israeli military.

In addition, sirens in southern Israel were activated by the launches.

Why are Palestinians concerned about the future of Al-Aqsa?

The Al-Aqsa complex is located on a plateau in East Jerusalem, which Israel took control of during the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently annexed, a decision that was not acknowledged by the majority of other nations.

Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest place in Islam, and the Dome of the Rock, a building built in the seventh century that is said to be the location of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to heaven, is located inside the complex.

Jews refer to the area as Temple Mount because they think the Biblical Jewish temples originally existed there.

Al-Aqsa is one of the few national symbols over which the Palestinians still claim some kind of sovereignty.

They worry, however, that Jewish organizations would gradually intrude, as occurred in Hebron at the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs), where after 1967, half of the mosque was converted into a synagogue.

The far-right Israeli organizations that seek to raze the Islamic buildings in the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex and replace them with a Jewish temple also cause concern for the Palestinians.

Malaysia denounces the raids on Al-Aqsa in “strongest terms.”

In the “strongest words possible,” Malaysia denounced the most recent attacks on Al-Aqsa and urged the international community to hold Israel responsible.

On Thursday, the Malaysian administrative capital of Putrajaya served as the source for a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ministry said that the Israeli soldiers’ actions “were illegal, disdainful, and blatantly violated the human rights of the Palestinians and the sanctity of the third holiest site in Islam.”

Al-Aqsa tensions to be discussed by UN Security Council

According to diplomats, the UN Security Council will meet in an extraordinary session on Thursday to examine the violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex.

According to officials who spoke to the Reuters news agency, China and the United Arab Emirates requested the closed-door meeting.

Throughout the occupied West Bank, violence erupts

According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli soldiers have injured dozens of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank during the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s second consecutive night of raids.

According to the news agency, Israeli soldiers fired gas canisters into a crowd in Nablus, injuring at least 12 people. Another person was injured by live bullets in the village of Beit Ummar, which is close to the city of Hebron in the north.

Wafa stated that other individuals in Beit Ummar also claimed to have suffocated on deadly gas.

Violence was also reported close to the cities of Jenin and Bethlehem by the agency.