JERUSALEM: Hundreds were wounded in new clashes on Monday between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem as a planned march marking Israel’s 1967 takeover of the holy city threatened to further inflame tensions. The clashes were the latest in days of the worst such disturbances in Jerusalem since 2017, fueled by a years-long bid by Jewish settlers to take over nearby Palestinian homes in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. A key court hearing scheduled for Monday on Sheikh Jarrah, the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood at the center of the property dispute, has been postponed. The Red Crescent said a total of more than 300 Palestinians were wounded on Friday and Saturday nights. The UN children’s agency UNICEF said that over two days, 29 Palestinian children had been injured in east Jerusalem, including a one-year-old.

Source: Manila Times May 10, 2021 16:18 UTC