Skyrockets/Missiles were fired up at Jerusalem and hundreds were wounded in booms at the Al-Aqsa mosque.
Tuesday 11 May 2021
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| Skyrockets/Missiles were fired up at Jerusalem and hundreds were wounded in booms at the Al-Aqsa mosque. |
In an unexpected intensification of violence Monday night, Gaza militants fired rockets at Jerusalem after a police raid that morning on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest places, leaving hundreds of Palestinians and injuring dozens of policemen. at the end of weeks of unrest in the city.
The escalation, which followed months of relative calm on the Gaza border, has made residents of Gaza and Israel brace themselves for more violence.
The IDF said seven rockets were fired from Gaza shortly after 6 p.m., one of which was intercepted by a missile defense system. At least one plane crashed into a hilltop village west of Jerusalem, causing damage to homes but no injuries.
Separately, militants fired an anti-tank missile along the Gaza perimeter at an Israeli vehicle, wounding the driver.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets and said it moved to protect Jerusalem after police raided the mosque compound in Jerusalem. Islamic Jihad, an independent armed group, claimed responsibility for the anti-tank missile strike, as well as dozens of other rocket attacks that were not immediately confirmed by the Israeli government.
Sirens sounded in the areas closest to the Gaza periphery, as well as in the Jerusalem area.
The attacks culminated in a day of violence in Jerusalem, which began when police entered the mosque compound around 8 am and fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to throw stones at Palestinians. Palestinians have stored stones at the site in anticipation of a clash with police and far-right Jewish groups.
In the afternoon, more than 330 Palestinians were injured, while at least 250 were hospitalized, according to a representative of the Palestinian Red Crescent. The medical ambulance organization said one person was shot in the head and was in critical condition, and at least two others were in serious or critical condition.
Tensions were already high in Jerusalem. Palestinians have demonstrated daily since April to protest the planned expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the city, amid repeated clashes over restrictions on Palestinian access to the old heart of the city.
The unrest was long expected to end on Monday when far-right Israelis were to stage a provocative march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City.
The march is an annual event to commemorate the capture of East Jerusalem during the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 and is a remembrance known in Israel as Jerusalem Day. After that, Israel annexed that part of the city, a move that most of the world did not recognize. Palestinians regard East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state and regard today's celebrations as a provocation.
The Israeli government did little to reduce tensions until Sunday night when it took several steps to try to reduce the escalation of the conflict.
With the passage of minutes before the march began, the government restricted it to a less controversial route to avoid a direct confrontation.
On Monday, Israeli police decided to prevent Jews from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which Jews know as the Temple Mount, and Muslims as the Noble Shrine.
On Sunday, Israel's Supreme Court postponed a ruling on the expulsion of six Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem, a ruling due on Monday, in an effort to defuse another explosive device.
But these measures failed to prevent an escalation of violence.
Days after Hamas, the Islamic armed group, threatened to respond to Israeli operations in Jerusalem, the movement's military wing issued an ultimatum, calling on Israel to withdraw its security forces from the Al-Aqsa Mosque and another area in Jerusalem. East and release all Palestinians detained during the recent riots before six in the afternoon.
Shortly after that, the rockets started.
In anticipation of the conflict, the Israeli military has already closed areas and roads near the border of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian coastal area controlled by Hamas.
Militants in Gaza fired rockets at Israel on Sunday night, after they launched incendiary balloons on Israeli farmland in recent days, but the rockets only hit open areas. Israel responded by preventing fishermen from reaching the sea and closing a major crossing between Gaza and Israel.
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