Palestinian rockets fired at Israel amid tensions in Jerusalem

Jerusalem.

Palestinian militants They fired a missile tonight (Saturday noon) from Gaza strip towards Israel Amid the tension that occupied East Jerusalem is experiencing these days, which increased last Friday with power cuts The Israeli Police To the park Mosques

“The alarm is only activated in open (uninhabited) areas,” Israeli army.

During this tense month from Ramadan, The Militia They increased the shelling that, coinciding with another day of riots in Jerusalem, came to launch up to 36 rockets on the night of April 23-24.

The shooting took place at dawn today, when the quarrels that broke out on Saturday night began between Palestinians and the Israeli border guard police at the Damascus Gate at the entrance to Bethlehem. The Old City in East Jerusalem.

Police used sound bombs and rubber balls to disperse groups of Palestinians who left 11 in the hospital and 64 of them were treated, including a 6-year-old girl, according to the report. Palestinian Red Crescent.

This coincided with Laylat al-Qadr (Laylat al-Qadir), the date of the blessed month of Ramadan Ramadan, When it was more than 70,000 Muslims They attended the prayer in the courtyard of the mosque, which on Friday recorded intense bickering over an intervention The Israeli Police On hypotheses.

to me policeman The attack was stormed in response to the riots and sparked violent clashes with Palestinians who threw stones and blunt objects and admitted more than 200 Palestinians to the hospital.

The tension that lasted for weeks on East Jerusalem And it spread to the rest of the Old City and its environs on Friday.

Today, groups of Palestinians set out again from Gaza Incendiary balloons headed towards Israel and announced that they would continue “activities” at the separation fence.

The leader of the Islamic Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh– Which de facto controls the strip – on Friday, Acting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against “not playing with fire.”

The European Union s United State Urgently request the easing of tensions in the holy city, which has started since the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan RamadanWhat ends on the twelfth of this month is experiencing a dangerous escalation. EFE