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The Philadelphia Inquirer · 18 April 2022

CP-2022-015

Clashes erupt again at flashpoint Jerusalem holy site

Palestinian aid workers said 17 were injured in unrest after Israeli police entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque site.

By Josef Federman, Associated Press, Jerusalem

Clashes erupt again at flashpoint Jerusalem holy site — The Philadelphia Inquirer, 18 April 2022
The Philadelphia Inquirer · 18 April 2022

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — Israeli police on Sunday entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City to secure the way for Jewish visitors to the flashpoint holy site, fueling clashes that left 17 Palestinians wounded, according to Palestinian medical workers… Israeli police accused Palestinians of ‘defiling and desecrating’ a holy site, while Palestinian officials accused Israel of trying to divide the sensitive holy site. ‘What happened in Al-Aqsa Mosque is a dangerous escalation, the repercussions of which are to be borne by the Israeli government alone,’ said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas… Amateur videos circulating on social media appeared to show police officers using batons to subdue arrested Palestinians and clear people from the esplanade, drawing accusations they were using excessive force. In one video, an officer clubbed an apparently unarmed man as he stood next to a child.”

Context added by this archive

Three papers ran this dispatch in the same week under three headlines. This one puts the wounded in the deck and the word clashes in the headline.

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"Clashes erupt again at flashpoint Jerusalem holy site," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 18 April 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-015. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-015

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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