Over 150 60Palestinians injured in clashes at al-Aqsa
Thousands of Palestinians attempted to visit the al-Aqsa mosque in Al-Quds for morning prayers on 2nd Friday of Ramadan as tensions remain high.
Around 60 Palestinians were injured on the al-Aqsa mosque Friday morning, according to the Red Crescent, after Israeli security forces used tear gas and clashed with prayers.
According to Palestinian reports, Zionist regime’s police used tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.
Media reports said the occupation forces also attacked paramedics and press crews, chased them in the courtyards of the al-Aqsa Mosque, and beat a number of them.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRSC) reported that 152 fasting Palestinians had been transferred to hospitals in the occupied al-Quds for injuries as a result of the raid.
The regime has stepped up its deadly acts of aggression across Palestinian territories since the beginning of Ramadan, as a result of which Palestinians put up a stronger resistance to counter the aggression.
Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesperson of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, hailed the Palestinian people for their defense of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque amid escalated Israeli aggression in Ramadan.
“We salute our people in the occupied city of al-Quds and the Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque for defending this holy site and for their heroic confrontation with the Zionist occupation forces,” Barhoum said.
The Hamas spokesperson said the heroic images of the worshipers and youths while confronting the occupation soldiers are reminiscent of the heroic images of the resistance and the failure of the electronic gates project that our nation faced in the occupied al-Quds and the 1948 territories.
“Our nation will stand up to come to the aid of the al-Aqsa Mosque and its worshipers, and just as they won all their fights against this regime, they will also defeat the occupiers in this battle,” Barhoum stressed. “And [our nation] has enough power to fulfill its will and prevent the implementation of the occupying Zionist regime’s imposed equations on the Palestinian people in al-Quds and the al-Aqsa Mosque.”
The Hamas official also said, “Our people in al-Quds are not alone in their battle in the al-Aqsa Mosque, but the whole Palestinian nation and the heroic resistance groups, as well as their vigilant forces and children of the freedom-seeking nation, are by their side.”