Israel has killed a 20-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank and has responded to rocket fire from Syria with ground and air strikes.
The escalation of tension between Palestine and Israel continues to grow as hundreds of Palestinians locked themselves in Al Aqsa Mosque, on the Esplanade of Jerusalem’s Mosques, this Saturday, refusing to leave the place during full Ramadan. In addition, the Israeli Defense Forces Palestinian protester shot dead in Azzun.
Police entered the area shortly after Palestinians barricaded themselves in the mosque, as Jordan’s foreign ministry (formally responsible for Jerusalem’s Muslim holy sites) has warned of “catastrophic consequences” if officers break into the area. Al Aqsa to expel the Palestinians. Haman has warned that an eviction would “create more tension and violence and everyone would pay the price”.
For its part, a Hamas spokesman, Mohamed Hamadé, has warned that “the aggression of the occupation will have only the resistance as an answer and the resistance is ready to respond to the occupation crimes commensurate with the magnitude of the crime”.
The Esplanade of the Mosques is the religious heart of East Jerusalem and rests on one side on the Wailing Wall, the last remnant of the Jewish Temple of Solomon, for which reason Muslims fear that Israel will destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque (third holiest site in Islam) to build a Jewish Third Temple in Jerusalem.
These incidents come in the context of a significant increase in tension in the area caused by theconfrontations Wednesday between Israeli police and Palestinian worshipers at the holy Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
These clashes were followed by a fierce firefight between Israel and Palestinian militias in both the Gaza Strip and the Gaza Strip South Lebanon.
Start of deadliest year since 2000
Tension spread to the West Bank on Friday, where two sisters aged 15 and 20 died in a shooting that seriously injured his mother.
Shortly afterwards, a group of tourists on the coast of Tel Aviv was run over by an Arab citizen of Israel, who was killed. The incident resulted in the death of a 36-year-old Italian man and seven other tourists were injured, none seriously.
Following these episodes, a reinforcement of army troops both in the West Bank and in central Israel.
This is the deadliest start to the year in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2000. In the just over three months since the start of 2023, 18 people have died in attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs, while 94 Palestinians have died in violent incidents of a different nature with Israelis.
Also the The Israeli army attacked positions in southern Syria this morning by artillery and by air after six missiles were launched from that area in two batches, three of which crossed Israeli territory.
The Israeli authorities have now approved six new plans expand their settlements in the West Bankincluding the construction of two new districts.
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Source: EITB
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