MIDEAST-JERUSALEM/VIOLENCE Israeli police clash with stone throwing Palestinians in Jerusalem

Record ID: 860764

  • Title: MIDEAST-JERUSALEM/VIOLENCE Israeli police clash with stone throwing Palestinians in Jerusalem
  • Date: 6th November 2014
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (NOVEMBER 6, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CLASHING WITH ISRAELI POLICE VARIOUS OF ISRAELI POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS GRENADES POLICE AMID SMOKE TEAR GAS GRENADES BEING FIRED FROM BARRELS ON VEHICLE PALESTINIAN YOUTHS HURLING STONES VARIOUS OF YOUTHS RUNNING AMID SMOKE MORE OF CLASHES AS SEEN FROM AFAR
  • Embargoed: 21st November 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA56YO8PHEII3MXHC8AQ11JS7FV
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  • Story Text: Israeli police on Thursday (November 6) clashed with stone hurling Palestinian youths in East Jerusalem, where the streets have been ablaze amid rising tensions in the city.
    Police said that security forces used riot dispersal means as Palestinians hurled stones and fireworks at them and that no casualties were reported.
    The roots of the unrest are many: from the killing in July of a Palestinian teenager by Jewish extremists -- apparently in revenge for the killing of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinians -- to increased settlement building in East Jerusalem, the war in Gaza and a push by ultra-nationalist Jews to be allowed to pray at one of Islam's holiest sites.
    The seething anger was brought to the fore again on Wednesday (November 5), when a Palestinian man rammed his vehicle into pedestrians and Israeli border police on a road straddling East and West Jerusalem, killing one person and wounding a dozen. The attacker was shot dead by police.
    The result of the rising tension is the greatest period of unrest the city has experienced since the second Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, began in 2000, a five-year period of conflict that left around 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis dead.
    While the upheaval has largely been confined to half a dozen neighbourhoods in the hills and valleys to the south and east of the Old City, Palestinians say anger in their community now probably exceeds that of 14 years ago.
    The al Aqsa mosque at the heart of Jerusalem's Old City is considered the third holiest shrine in Islam and is located in a compound which Muslims refer to as the Noble Sanctuary and Jews call the Temple Mount, Judaism's most sacred site.
    Israel captured East Jerusalem along with Gaza and the West Bank in the 1967 Six Day War. It annexed the city shortly afterwards and passed a law in 1980 that declared all of Jerusalem its capital, a move not recognised internationally.
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