Over 300 Palestinians injured as Israeli occupation forces attacked them

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, (ST)_ More than 300 Palestinians were injured during the attack of the Israeli occupations forces on them in Al-Quds city [Jerusalem] over the past two days. 

The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance service said most were wounded in the face and eyes by rubber-coated rounds and shrapnel from stun grenades.

Three Palestinians were blinded and several children lost one of their eyes as they were directly attacked by the Israeli occupation forces, according to WAFA News Agency. 

The agency quoted Al-Quds Governor Adnan Ghaith as saying that the Israeli occupation forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians since the start of Ramadan month. 

In one of the incidents of the Israeli crackdown, a father and his four children were injured when Israeli police officers fired a stun grenade at them in Damascus Gate.

In Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, whose residents have been holding a vigil against imminent evictions by the occupation authorities, police attacked the protesters and physically beat up some of them, and five protesters were detained by the police.

These developments came only a day after Israeli occupation forces raided the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and assaulted worshipers using rubber-coated rounds, teargas and stun grenades, leaving scores injured on Friday night.

Last night,  Israeli warplanes carried out two strikes that hit targets in the center of the Gaza Strip, resulting in financial damages to property but no casualties.

Israeli F16 fighter jets fired missiles that hit two locations east of Deir el-Balah town, causing significant damages to the sites bombed and to neighboring facilities. There were no reports of casualties.

Basma Qaddour