{"id":607380,"date":"2022-04-15T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=701a7fcabae0399f3669f75eaf1f044a"},"modified":"2022-04-15T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:05:41","slug":"more-than-150-palestinians-injured-in-israeli-raid-on-al-aqsa-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/15\/more-than-150-palestinians-injured-in-israeli-raid-on-al-aqsa-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 150 Palestinians Injured in Israeli Raid on Al Aqsa Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces on Friday launched a raid on the Al Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, injuring more than 150 Palestinians as they gathered to worship on the second week of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of the Al Aqsa Mosque \u2014 one of Islam&#8217;s holiest sites \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-palestine-jerusalem-aqsa-mosque-storm-attack-worshipper\">told<\/a> <em>Middle East<\/em><em> Eye<\/em> that &#8220;what happened today is an attack on all peaceful worshipers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a barbaric premeditated attack on worshipers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli police fired tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets as a small group of Palestinians hurled rocks, reportedly injuring three Israeli officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said it treated 152 people, many of them wounded by rubber-coated bullets or stun grenades, or beaten with batons,&#8221; the <em>Associated Press<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jerusalem-israel-middle-east-endowments-philanthropy-f7aa03ef6d2c2965f7d053ea5afff075\">reported<\/a>. &#8220;The [Islamic endowment that administers the mosque] said one of the guards at the site was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Israeli troops raided Al Aqsa Mosque during morning prayers, wounding dozens of Palestinian worshippers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2IdkxgJQiZ\">pic.twitter.com\/2IdkxgJQiZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TRT World (@trtworld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trtworld\/status\/1514831303639805966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Once again, during month of Ramadan, Israeli forces raided one of # holiest sites in Islam &amp; rubber bullets, tear gas and sound grenades at worshipers.<\/p>\n<p>Red Crescent: 152 Palestinians injured<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see media spin this as \u201cclashes\u201d + \u201cintractable conflict\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/chS4NZSK7n\">pic.twitter.com\/chS4NZSK7n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0644\u064a\u0646\u0629 (@LinahAlsaafin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LinahAlsaafin\/status\/1514876274312990721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After firing tear gas and projectiles on the perimeter, Israeli police eventually entered the mosque and arrested hundreds of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-palestine-jerusalem-aqsa-mosque-storm-attack-worshipper\">According to<\/a> <em>Middle East Eye<\/em>, &#8220;The buildings inside the complex were damaged in the attack, with some of its historical windows smashed by Israeli forces, according to eyewitnesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medics, journalists, mosque volunteers, and women were targeted, according to Palestinian media reports,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Journalists Muhammad Samreen and Rami al-Khateeb were among those injured. At least one child was detained. Meanwhile, Israeli guards stationed at the mosque&#8217;s gate stopped Palestinians from entering the site ahead of Friday prayers&#8230; Worshipers coming from the occupied West Bank and within Israel were allowed to enter shortly after.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/more-than-150-palestinians-injured-in-israeli-raid-on-al-aqsa-mosque\/\">Latest - Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces launched a morning raid on the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, in the midst of Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23285,6,82,29033,4,473,18006],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607381,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607380\/revisions\/607381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}