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| Clashes erupt at Jerusalem funeral of Palestinian mortally wounded on Temple Mount |
| 2022-05-17 |
| [IsraelTimes] Police say 6 cops lightly injured, at least 15 Paleostinians arrested; Red Islamic Thingy says 71 maimed as a funeral procession deteriorates into violence for second time in a week. Paleostinians and coppers clashed fiercely in East Jerusalem on Monday night during the funeral procession of a Paleostinian man who died after being critically maimed during festivities on the Temple Mount last month. Six officers were lightly injured by stones hurled at them by hundreds of rioters at a cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City. Two of the officers were taken to a nearby hospital for further medical treatment, police said. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy rescue service said 71 Paleostinians were maimed from rubber bullets, stun grenades and beatings. Thirteen people required hospitalization, including two with eye injuries, it said. Police said officers arrested 15 people, though Paleostinian media put the figure at 50. Footage showed rocks raining on the officers at several locations throughout the funeral procession. Other clips showed fireworks being set off in the direction of police, who responded with riot dispersal measures. Police said the rioting took place both during the procession and at the gravesite, as well on Salah a-Din street. Paleostinians also damaged several vehicles during the festivities and struck a number of passers-by, according to police. Toward the beginning of the funeral, a car accelerated toward Border Police officers securing the procession, Israeli law enforcement said. The officers fired at the vehicle’s wheels until it came to a stop. The five Paleostinians inside were then arrested. No one was harmed in the incident. Thousands of Paleostinians participated in the funeral procession for 21-year-old Walid a-Sharif. Paleostinians said he died after being hit by a sponge-tipped bullet during the festivities on April 22. Police said he fell and hit his head while throwing rocks. Israeli authorities returned a-Sharif’s body to his family earlier Monday evening and the latter immediately began a procession that reached the Temple Mount where a handful of participants were seen waving Paleostinian flags. "With our souls and blood, we will redeem you, martyr," the crowd chanted. Photos from the scene showed the ambulance that transferred the body of a-Sharif with its windows broken and tires slashed. Paleostinian media claimed this was a result of the police’s riot dispersal measures. This was the second East Jerusalem funeral in days that deteriorated into violence. Friday’s procession for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh drew international headlines after police were filmed rushing at and beating mourners, including pallbearers when the casket was brought out of a Jerusalem hospital en route to burial, almost causing it to fall to the ground. The Israel Police has offered a series of explanations for its use of force on the day of the funeral, including claiming that a mob of "300 rioters" had seized the casket at the hospital. This was denied by Shireen Abu Akleh’s brother in an interview with The Times of Israel on Sunday. Clashes and unrest had been breaking out at the al-Aqsa Mosque that sits atop the Temple Mount nearly every day during the holy Moslem month of Ramadan in April. Police said a-Sharif was one of the masked youths hurling rocks when he fell over and hit his head on the stone floor. His family disputed this, saying he was hit by a sponge-tipped bullet, used by police that morning. Police published footage of what they said was a-Sharif, his face covered in a black and white checked keffiyeh, repeatedly throwing stones and rocks at Israeli security forces. Hours after his death, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, said a-Sharif was a member of the terror group. The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group issued a statement threatening Israel in the wake of a-Sharif’s death. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 If I am ever invited to a Palestinian funeral I will forgo my suit and buy a helmet instead. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-05-17 12:33 |