OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Clashes between Palestinian youth and the IOF broke out on Friday afternoon in different suburbs and villages of occupied Jerusalem after the Friday prayers.
Local sources told PIC correspondent that violent clashes broke out between the residents of the holy city and IOF troops who were deployed in large numbers around the city and stopped many worshipers from reaching the Aqsa Mosque.
The sources also said that worshippers who were prevented from reaching the mosque performed the Friday prayers on the streets of the holy city before this act of defiance developed into protests and clashes with the occupation forces, especially in the suburbs of Tur, Silwan, Eisaweyya and at the Qalandia roadblock.
The IOF troops fired live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets and teargas canisters towards the protestors, injuring a number of protesters who were hit with the rubber-coated bullets and a number of cases of breathing difficulties.
Local sources also reported that under cover occupation soldiers, dressed as Arabs, tried to arrest a number of youth participating in the protests.
On Thursday evening Israeli occupation police arrested Sheikh Ali Abu Sheikhah, consultant of the Islamic movement in 1848-occpied Palestine, on his return from Jerusalem in the company of Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic movement, accusing him of incitement because he called on Palestinians to hold I’tikaf (staying and worshipping at a mosque without leaving it) in the Aqsa Mosque.
The occupation police applied for extending his detention for six more days for interrogation.
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