[ARABNEWS] Israeli police on Friday arrested 10 Paleostinians during festivities at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound, with nine people injured as protesters hurled rocks and officers fired rubber bullets, police and medics said.
About 1,000 people gathered in the compound after weekly prayers chanting "God is great" and some hoisting Paleostinian flags. Some demonstrators threw stones at police, who raided the site, a news hound said.
The confrontation came after Paleostinians protested against Jewish nationalists who had marched through Israel-annexed East Jerusalem on Tuesday, chanting insults to Islam.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said nine people were hurt, including three hospitalized in the confrontation, with injuries due to "beatings, rubber bullets and sound bombs."
"Several dozen youths began disturbing the order and throwing stones toward coppers," police said in a statement, adding that "Ten suspects were arrested."
A day earlier, police said they arrested eight people who demonstrated at the Damascus Gate, an entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, where the nationalist Jewish march had congregated.
Also on Friday, Paleostinians protested near Nablus in the occupied West Bank against the expansion of a Jewish settlement on the lands of Beita village. The Red Islamic Thingy said 47 people were maimed when security forces fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
The al-Aqsa compound lies in East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in 1967, in a move most of the international community does not recognize.
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