RAMALLAH – Israeli occupation forces arrested on Friday nearly 400 Palestinian worshippers from Al-Aqsa Mosque, eyewitnesses said.
Earlier in the day, Dozens of Israeli police units broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City and attacked thousands of Muslim worshippers performing the dawn prayer, causing dozens of injuries, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Witnesses said Israeli police raided the mosque compound as thousands of people, many of them elderly, women and children, were attending the early morning prayers, as has been the case every day since the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan two weeks ago, causing panic and forcing people to rush seeking safety from the police rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas.
The Red Crescent said it handled dozens of injuries and transferred more than 60 people, many of them hit in the upper part of the body, to hospitals in Jerusalem as it set up a field hospital to deal with the many injuries expected from the police attack.
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