01:00 PM
Wednesday 05 April 2023
(Agencies):
The past hours were filled with anger and condemnation after the spread of video clips of Israeli soldiers brutally attacking those who are in retreat in Al-Aqsa Mosque during the storming of the Al-Qibli prayer hall there.
Video footage also showed that a fire broke out in the Al-Qibli Mosque during the Israeli incursion, as those in retreat rushed to try to put it out.
“Besiege us, they will kill us”
Other scenes from the occupation forces’ assault on the male and female retreats in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque pic.twitter.com/YClnYTGyq2
– AlQastal Al-Qastal (@AlQastalps) April 5, 2023
And Palestinian medical sources reported that a number of those in retreat were injured, as the Israeli forces stormed the mosque’s clinic, amid reports of a serious head injury as a result of Israeli soldiers firing rubber bullets, according to what Russia Today reported.
The Israeli police stated that they arrested dozens of people who had barricaded themselves inside the mosque.
A video clip, published by the Palestinian news network Al-Qastal, shows the extent of the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Israeli police stormed the site at dawn today, Wednesday, April 5, and violent confrontations took place between the police and Palestinian worshipers who were performing the dawn prayer inside the Al-Qibli Mosque.
The Israeli police announced early Wednesday that they had stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to expel “rioters” who brought in “firecrackers, sticks and stones”.
Violent confrontations took place after the Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount, in what Hamas considered an “unprecedented crime.”
New scenes of the brutal attack launched by the occupation forces on the male and female retreats in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque tonight pic.twitter.com/DtGt562M3p
– AlQastal Al-Qastal (@AlQastalps) April 5, 2023
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that dozens of injuries occurred in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and added in a press statement that the Israeli forces prevented crews from entering the mosque to treat the injured.
Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, called on the Palestinians at dawn Wednesday to go to Jerusalem to “protect” Al-Aqsa Mosque.
These confrontations came in the midst of the month of Ramadan, and as the Jews prepared to celebrate, starting from Wednesday, the Jewish Passover, and in an atmosphere of growing tension between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the beginning of this year.
And the Israeli police announced, on Wednesday, that it had arrested “more than 350 people” during violent confrontations that took place earlier between its members and Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
Circular: The aftermath of the occupation forces storming the Al-Qibli prayer hall in Al-Aqsa Mosque and assaulting the young men this night pic.twitter.com/NTz2xptLZn
– AlQastal Al-Qastal (@AlQastalps) April 5, 2023
A police statement said, “The Israeli police arrested … more than 350 people who barricaded themselves violently on the Temple Mount,” the name Jews give to the Temple Mount.