Palestinians arrested and injured in Israeli raid on al-Aqsa mosque
by Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem from World news | The Guardian on (#6AG8X)
Police raid triggers West Bank clashes, cross-border strikes in Gaza Strip and fears of escalation
At least 14 Palestinians have been injured and hundreds arrested in an Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, triggering clashes in the West Bank, cross-border strikes in the Gaza Strip and fears of wider escalation over the holiday period.
The violence in the early hours of Wednesday - during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday - comes after a year of spiralling violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It also carries echoes of 2021, when clashes at Jerusalem's holiest site helped start an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement in control of Gaza.
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