At least 10 Palestinians were injured on Friday morning, when Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and attacked hundreds of worshippers, according to Palestinian medical sources.
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The Israeli occupation forces detained a number of Palestinian worshipes after Al fajr prayer in the Al-Aqsa mosque. pic.twitter.com/yJuass0dHe— Antasena (@_Raden_Antasena) January 31, 2020
Israeli police forced their way into the mosque and shot rubber-coated metal bullets at the unarmed worshippers, injuring at least 10, one of them in the head.
The police then forced all the worshippers to leave the compound and detained three of them.
RT PalestineChron "#Israeli Forces storm #AlAqsa, Arrest #Palestinian Worshippers (VIDEO) https://t.co/eYJJI0Kwjb via PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/KucEtgzk7c"
— Richard Hardigan (@RichardHardigan) January 25, 2020
Earlier this month, Palestinians launched the “Great Fajr Campaign”, calling on people to perform the dawn prayer – fajr in Arabic – in both the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron (Al-Khalil).
The campaign is aimed at defying Israel’s attempts to enforce a spatial and temporal division of the holy sites between Muslims and Jewish settlers.
(Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Social Media)
To be harassed while in prayer is something I have repeatedly experienced since the current White House Administration took office.
Such harrassment is as ungodly as people can become.