Tens of thousands of Muslims complete their midday prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque

Palestinian media report morning clashes and relative calm after mid-morning prayers

7 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Between 60,000 and 130,000 Muslims have completed the third Friday of prayers at noon on the occasion of Ramadan in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after sporadic clashes with the Israeli Police, followed by some relaxation on the occasion of the prayer.

This Friday’s prayer occurred at a time of extreme tension after the Israeli police broke into the sacred site this week, the catalyst for a bombardment exchange between Hamas and Israel and in the midst of a Palestinian attack on an Israeli family It has ended with two sisters shot dead and their mother in critical condition.

Media such as the Palestinian agency Maan or the news portal The New Arab denounce, according to witnesses, that the Israeli Police this morning attacked dozens of faithful who were trying to enter the mosque to perform the Fajr prayer by preventing those under 40 years of age They entered the sacred precinct.

Although the midday prayer was calm, as it drew to a close hundreds of people began waving Palestinian flags and those of the Islamist Hamas movement, as well as applauding the attack on the Israeli family in the Jordan Valley, according to reports by the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.

Palestinian media such as the official Wafa news agency have reported that at least three young Palestinians have been injured by shots fired by Israeli forces in the last few hours in the West Bank: two during a raid in the city of Beit Ommar, in the Hebron governorate – – where four other Palestinians have also been detained — and a third south of Tubas.

Also in the last few hours, a hate crime that occurred last night in the Arab-Israeli city of Kafr Qasem has been revealed, where several vehicles have burned and a star of David has been painted accompanied by the slogan “price tag “, an expression used by the Israeli settlers and which describes their acts of vandalism and other aggressions against the Palestinian population and the Arab-Israelis.