After a night of confrontations … cautious calm and tight security measures in Jerusalem, Netanyahu is rejecting the pressure on Sheikh Jarrah

The city of Jerusalem is witnessing tight security measures in both the Old City and the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and while cautious calm reigns in the city after a hot night that witnessed confrontations between the Palestinians and Israeli forces, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected pressure to prevent his country’s authorities from building in Jerusalem.

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The Anadolu Agency quoted eyewitnesses in the Bab al-Amud area and the Al-Aqsa Mosque that the atmosphere is calm and the doors of the old Jerusalem and the mosque are open, and no incidents were recorded this morning, despite the intense deployment of the occupation forces.

With the early hours of the morning, thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank left the Al-Aqsa Mosque after observing the night of Ramadan, the 27th of Ramadan, while others continue to observe i’tikaaf until the end of the holy month.

In a related context, the (official) Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that the police in Jerusalem are at peak preparations today, Sunday, tomorrow, and until the end of this week.

All eyes will be directed to the occupied city tomorrow, Monday, in conjunction with calls by settlers to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque and organize a mass rally in the Old City.

In the file of the deportation of Sheikh Jarrah residents, the broadcasting organization said that the political level, due to the events in Jerusalem, asked the legal advisor to the government, Avihai Mandelblit, to examine the possibility of his interference in the legal procedures and to postpone the session scheduled for tomorrow to present his position and opinion, even though the state is not a party to these the case.

The Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, saw the political level move as an attempt to de-escalate the escalation. On Monday, the Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in Israel) will review the decision to evacuate 4 Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in favor of settler organizations.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today, Sunday, that Israel “firmly rejects” the pressure to prevent it from building in Jerusalem, after increasing international condemnation of the planned evictions of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.

The occupation forces had suppressed dozens of worshipers at the Lions Gate when they left Al-Aqsa Mosque after performing the Fajr prayer, in an extension of violent confrontations that took place in the vicinity of Al-Quds Al-Sharif on the night of the 27th of Ramadan.

Tens of thousands of worshipers performed the Fajr prayer, and then thousands of them gathered near the Al-Qibli prayer hall, and chanted slogans denouncing the occupation.

The confrontations began at the Lions Gate and spread to the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets, tear gas and sound bombs, and stormed in large numbers the Al-Aqsa Square.

The Anadolu Agency quoted the Palestine Red Crescent Society as saying that 10 Palestinians were injured at dawn on Sunday, during clashes between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the center of occupied Jerusalem, bringing the number of injuries to 100.

The association indicated that an injured woman was taken to hospital after being hit by a rubber bullet in the mouth.

And early Sunday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society announced that the number of injured rose to 90 during violent confrontations in the vicinity of Jerusalem, and that 30 of them were taken to hospitals.

The Red Crescent Society said that among the injured were a one-year-old baby, as well as 5 other children, and a medic.

The society stated that most of the injuries with rubber bullets and stun grenades were direct, and there was an attack.

More than 90,000 Palestinians participated in the Tarawih prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict restrictions imposed by the occupation in recent days, to limit the movement of Palestinians inside the Old City, while the occupation forces targeted demonstrators in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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The Islamic Endowments Department said that worshipers “celebrate the Night of Power at the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque despite the difficult occupation measures, and many worshipers were prevented from arriving, and the residents of the West Bank were closed.”

The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri, said – in a statement to Al-Jazeera – that the occupation wants to empty the Temple Mount to allow the incursions of extremist Jews, adding, “We remain in Jerusalem, and we will not accept any harm to the sanctities of the Holy Mosque.”

The occupation forces had pursued Palestinian youths who had gathered in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, and stormed a house in the neighborhood where some young men had taken refuge during hit-and-run operations.

And the occupation forces prevented approaching the houses threatened with eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, as well as the Palestinian solidarity movements with the residents of the neighborhood.

The occupation soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades at Bab Al-Sahira and Salah El-Din Street near the Old City walls.

Clashes took place between the occupation soldiers and Palestinian youths near the separation wall in the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, near the town of Beita, the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus, the Jalameh checkpoint north-east of Jenin, and the Qalandia military checkpoint north of Jerusalem.

On the other hand, the Al-Jazeera correspondent said early in the morning, Sunday, that the artillery of the occupation army targeted two shells, an observatory for the Palestinian resistance east of Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army said that it had carried out a raid on a military site of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the southern Gaza Strip, after a rocket-propelled grenade was fired from it that landed in an open area.

Yesterday, Saturday evening, the occupation forces threw tear gas bombs near the border strip in the eastern Gaza Strip on Palestinian demonstrators who responded to calls to protest against the Israeli attacks in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Anadolu Agency stated that the targeting resulted in a number of demonstrators suffocating and providing medical assistance in the field.