{"id":157103,"date":"2021-05-09T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=ab39f31697974f0c8061ea5acc5d092d"},"modified":"2021-05-09T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T17:08:56","slug":"israeli-police-attack-hundreds-of-palestinians-demonstrating-illegal-evictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/09\/israeli-police-attack-hundreds-of-palestinians-demonstrating-illegal-evictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Police Attack Hundreds of Palestinians Demonstrating Illegal Evictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Israeli<\/a>

More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one partially blinded over night in East Jerusalem when Israeli police fired rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenades at thousands of people who were protesting Israeli settlers and security forces’ ongoing effort to dispossess Palestinians of their land in the occupied territory.<\/p>\n

Israel’s violent oppression of Palestinians, which has intensified<\/a> in recent days, continued Saturday.<\/p>\n

“What’s happening in Jerusalem and Palestine more broadly is not a ‘clash’ or a ‘scuffle,’ but a state-sanctioned campaign of Israeli violence against Palestinians,” the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) said <\/a>Saturday. “To pretend otherwise is to minimize the horrors we are witnessing.”<\/p>\n

As Al Jazeera<\/em> reported<\/a>, several hundred riot gear-clad Israeli police officers deployed to the Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday night, where 70,000 Muslims had gathered at Islam’s third-holiest site for the last Friday prayer of Ramadan. Thousands of worshippers stayed to demonstrate against Israel’s attempted expulsion<\/a> of Palestinians from the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.<\/p>\n

According to Al Jazeera<\/em>, Israeli security forces opened fire on Palestinians at Al-Aqsa and throughout the city on Friday night, shooting people with rubber-coated steel bullets and using stun grenades on crowds that were armed with no more than shoes, chairs, and rocks.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said <\/a>Saturday that at least 205 Palestinians had been injured, mostly from rubber-coated rounds and shrapnel from stun grenades. Of the wounded, 88 were hospitalized, including one victim who lost an eye, two with serious head trauma, and two with fractured jaws.<\/p>\n

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Red Crescent: 163 Palestinians have been injured, 23 hospitalized as Israelis fire sound bombs and tear gas inside the Al Aqsa Mosque compound pic.twitter.com\/eb0RbGSNW1<\/a><\/p>\n

— \u0644\u064a\u0646\u0629 (@LinahAlsaafin) May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n