Israeli police injure dozens at #jerusalem's #al-Aqsa mosque
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Palestinian women react after having their IDs and bags checked by Israeli police outside of the al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 16, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad Gharabli)
Israeli police wounded dozens of Palestinians were wounded in clashes that erupted Wednesday when Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound was opened to Jewish visitors, an AFP correspondent said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP that Palestinians threw “stones and firecrackers” at police when they opened the walled compound’s gates. Police responded with stun grenades, Rosenfeld said, and closed the complex to the Jewish visitors after a number had toured the site. read (...)