JERUSALEM, April 22
The people of Palestine in the fight for their Rights against Israeli Police got injured (at least 57) within the Al-Aqsa mosque (Holy Site) in Jerusalem on Friday. Israel forcibly captured Al-Aqsa which is in east Jerusalem in a 1967 battle, Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for future state.
Medics said, "Violence persisted during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a site also revered by Jews".
Palestinians accuse Israel of limiting Muslim worship at Al-Aqsa which is the third-holiest site in Islam - at the same time as not doing enough to put in force a long-standing ban on Jewish prayer at the compound. Israel denies this.
Reuters witnesses said, "police entered the compound after the morning Ramadan prayers and fired rubber-tipped bullets and stun grenades at a crowd, some of whom were throwing rocks. Police extensively utilized a drone to drop tear gas".
Background
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. In 1947, the United Nations adopted Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan, which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s victory, but 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and the territory was divided into 3 parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River), and the Gaza Strip.
Over the following years, tensions rose in the region, particularly between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In June 1967, Israel preemptively attacked Egyptian and Syrian air forces, starting the Six-Day War. After the war, Israel gained territorial control over the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan; and the Golan Heights from Syria. Finally, in 1979, following a series of cease-fires and peace negotiations, representatives from Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David Accords, a peace treaty that ended the thirty-year conflict between Egypt and Israel.
The question of Palestinian self-determination and self-governance remained unresolved. In 1987, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip rose up against the Israeli government in what is known as the first intifada and the conflict remains between Palestine and Israel which has now gained the world's intention. Last year on May 10, 2021 after several consecutive days of violence throughout Jerusalem and the use of lethal and nonlethal force by Israeli police, Hamas, the militant group which governs Gaza, and other Palestinian militant groups launched hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory. Israel responded with airstrikes and later artillery bombardments against targets in Gaza, including launching several airstrikes that killed more than twenty Palestinians.
Palestinian and Israeli air-strike also caused damage on both sides.
CEASE-FIRE, May 21
On May 21, Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire, settled by Egypt, with each side claiming victory and no suggested violations. In eleven days of conflict, about two hundred and fifty Palestinians were killed and almost a thousand were wounded, and at the least thirteen Israelis were killed. In Gaza, authorities estimate the damage of tens of millions of dollars, during this conflict more than 72,000 Palestinians were displaced, estimated by United Nations.
Current Situation
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have soared recently after deadly attacks in Israel and Palestinian damage during subsequent Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank. In Defence, hundreds of people from Palestine hurled rocks and fireworks at Israeli Police. A policewoman was injured by a stone and a tree was set alight by the fireworks, police said.
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