Palestinians, Israeli police clash at major holy site in Jerusalem

By Joseph Krauss, Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands gathered for prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medics said more than 150 Palestinians were wounded — Palestinians threw rocks and Israeli police fired stun grenades in what was the most serious violence at the site in nearly a year… Israeli police accused Palestinians of ‘defiling and desecrating’ a holy site… Palestinian witnesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said a group of Palestinians threw rocks at police, who then entered the compound in force, setting off a wider conflagration… Video footage showed police beating a photographer for the Waqf with batons before knocking him to ground and kicking him. The Waqf said the photographer, Rami Khatib, suffered a broken hand…”

Context added by this archive

The single named Palestinian is a photographer, and he is named because he was beaten while photographing. Rami Khatib. The archive’s press-itself thread and its naming thread meet in one sentence.

Cite this item

"Palestinians, Israeli police clash at major holy site in Jerusalem," Portland Press Herald, 16 April 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-014

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