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Palestinians reported that Israeli police fired stun grenades and tear gas into the mosque compound on Monday. Medics say dozens have been injured.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 50 people were hospitalized.
Police said protesters threw stones from the mosque compound onto an adjoining roadway.
Israel responded to an earlier militant attack with with tank fire against positions belonging to Hamas — the Islamist group ruling Gaza.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least three rockets towards Israel after launching four projectiles a day earlier, the Israeli military said.
No casualties or damage were reported.
The UN has urged Israel to exercise “restraint” as tensions rise between Israelis and Palestinians over the contested area of east Jerusalem, with clashes leaving more than 300 people wounded in recent days.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants the Israeli government to halt all demolitions and evictions from the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, his spokesman said.
Israeli officials have approved a march known as Jerusalem Day in which participants support Israel’s claim to the whole of the holy city. But police barred Jews from visiting the Al-Aqsa compound amid the rising tensions with Palestinians.
The march is considered highly provocative by Palestinians as it celebrates Israel’s occupation of east Jerusalem, which it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Tensions have been on the rise for the past three days as the international community appeals for calm.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called his Israeli counterpart, Meir-Ben Shabbat, on Sunday to under Washington’s “serious concerns” about the situation there.
He urged Israel “to pursue appropriate measures to ensure calm during Jerusalem Day commemorations,” according to a statement by National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu onSunday defended Israel’s response to the protests and rioting in east Jerusalem.
“We will uphold law and order — vigorously and responsibly,” Netanyahu said ahead of a weekly cabinet meeting while vowing to “guard freedom of worship for all faiths.”
The long-running dispute between settlers and Palestinian families had been set to face a key legal hearing on Monday.
But officials canceled the session at the Israeli supreme court on whether four Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah will be told to leave their homes.
The Middle East quartet of world powers — the EU, the US, the United Nations, and Russia — said on Sunday that it has “deep concerns” about the recent violence there.
Clashes have raged for the past three days in the holy city of Jerusalem
All six predominantly Muslim nations that have diplomatic ties with the Israeli government — Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan — have also condemned Israel over the unrest.
In Jordan, which is the custodian of Jerusalem’s holy Islamic and Christian sites, King Abdullah II hit out on Sunday at “Israeli violations and escalatory practices at the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque.”
The Al-Aqsa mosque is one of Islam’s most revered locations, but its location is also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount.
Pope Francis, in his weekly Sunday mass, also urged calm from both sides.
“Violence only breeds more violence,” he told worshippers in St Peter’s Square in Rome.
Hundreds of Palestinians were injured over the weekend as Israeli security forces dispersed demonstrations and clashed with protesters.
Protests erupted as a legal case put dozens of Palestinians at the risk of expulsion from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
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