MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS/ISRAEL-PRAYERS-VIOLENCE Clashes break out in Jerusalem after Friday prayers

Record ID: 398761

  • Title: MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS/ISRAEL-PRAYERS-VIOLENCE Clashes break out in Jerusalem after Friday prayers
  • Date: 7th November 2014
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (NOVEMBER 7, 2014) (REUTERS) VIEW OF AL-AQSA PLAZA FROM AFAR VARIOUS VIEWS OF DOME OF THE ROCK HELICOPTER HOVERING/ VIEW OF AL-AQSA PLAZA VARIOUS OF FRIDAY PRAYERS IN RAS AL-AMOUD NEIGHBOURHOOD VARIOUS OF ARMED BORDER POLICEMEN SECURING FRIDAY PRAYERS SMOKE RISING FROM BURNING TYRES AFTER CLASHES IN SHOAFAT NEIGHBOURHOOD, ISRAELI POLICEMEN ON SITE PALESTINIAN PRO
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA9YFM31VC2QY9SV7O8N51EPLUR
  • Story Text: Violence resumed in Jerusalem on Friday (November 7) after prayers when stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli border police in east Jerusalem.
    In the Shoafat district, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters hurling firecrackers and burning car tires that sent up huge clouds of black smoke.
    In overnight confrontations a police watch tower was hit by Molotov cocktails in the east Jerusalem district of Shoafat, a video posted on social media showed.
    No casualties were reported in Jerusalem but Palestinians said that at least seven people were injured in West Bank confrontations.
    Jerusalem has seen a wave of unrest over the past four months, since before the July-August Gaza war. Violence has spiked in the past two weeks, with Palestinian drivers ramming into Israeli pedestrians, killing four people.
    A focus of Palestinian and regional anger has been a dispute over Jerusalem's holiest site, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount.
    For decades, Israel has maintained a ban on Jews praying at the site, which houses the Dome of the Rock and the 8th-century al-Aqsa mosque. It was also the site of ancient Jewish temples.
    In recent weeks, a campaign by far-right Jewish nationalists to be allowed to pray at the site has gathered momentum, leading to clashes at the compound between Israeli security forces and Muslim worshippers angry at what they see as an assault on a shrine that is administered by Islamic authorities.
    Earlier on Friday many young Palestinians held prayers in various east Jerusalem neighbourhoods after Israeli police restricted entry to al-Aqsa to men aged over 35, Israeli radio said.

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