[News] Israeli Troops Attack Friday Prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Wounding 110

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Israeli Troops Attack Friday Prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem,
  Wounding 110

author Saturday July 19, 2014 02:20author by Celine Hagbard 
<http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ih/9781156469613>
*http://www.imemc.org/article/68531*

    110 Palestinians, including a number of elderly men and women, were
    treated for injuries after Israeli troops attacked worshipers at the
    Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The wounded include two Directors of
    the Board for Islamic Endowments, several journalists, and
    paramedics who arrived on the scene to treat the wounded.

The Friday noon prayer was underway when Israeli forces raided the 
Mosque compound, firing rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades and 
tear gas. Palestinian youth responded by throwing stones. Israeli troops 
then attempted to force all of the worshipers out of the Mosque compound.

Al-Aqsa mosque is considered the third holiest site in Islam. Access to 
the Muslim holy site is controlled by Israeli soldiers, who frequently 
close off access to the mosque for the thousands of Muslim worshipers 
who come every Friday to attend the weekly midday prayers.

For the past three weeks, Israeli troops have prevented anyone under age 
fifty from attending prayer services at al-Aqsa mosque -- this coincides 
with three of the four Fridays in Ramadan, an important month in Muslim 
holy year marked by prayers, fasting and nighttime gatherings.

For the past three Fridays, worshipers excluded from the mosque have 
held Friday prayer services on the street outside the mosque. This week, 
the worshipers were attacked by police.

Among the Palestinians injured in the attack were the Director of the 
al-Aqsa Foundation, which oversees the mosque, Omar al-Kiswani, who was 
shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the foot, and Adnan 
al-Husseini, the Jerusalem Minister for the Palestinian Authority, who 
was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the leg.

In addition, two Board Members for the al-Aqsa Foundation, Abdulatheem 
Salhab and Fayez an-Obaidi, were both shot with rubber-coated steel 
bullets in the chest.

110 Palestinians were treated at al-Aqsa clinic on site, and around 15 
were transferred to local hospitals. Injuries included cuts, bruises, 
fractures and concussions. One Palestinian man suffered from bruised 
ribs and a punctured lung from being hit at close range, in the chest, 
by one of the so-called 'non-lethal' bullets.

Several elderly Palestinians required hospitalization, including an 
elderly man who was hit with a concussion grenade in the forehead, and 
one who was hit with shrapnel from a concussion grenade in his chest.

A spokesperson for the Israeli police said that police fired at "masked 
Arab rioters who were throwing stones at the police", but eyewitnesses 
contest that account of events.
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