MADRID, 17 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israeli security forces have broken into the funeral of the young Walid al Sharif on Monday, who died due to the serious injuries he suffered in the compound of the Al Aqsa mosque on April 22, and there have been clashes with the attendees in Jerusalem, near the Old City, around the cemetery.
The Red Crescent has pointed out that the number of injured has reached 71 as Israeli security forces have dispersed the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets, and at least 13 people have been taken to hospital, as has picked up the chain Al Jazeera.
Likewise, according to different local media, at least 16 people have been arrested in the surroundings of the cemetery where the funeral of the young man was held, who died in the hospital on Saturday morning.
For their part, six members of the Israeli security forces have been slightly injured by stone impacts, thrown by protesters in a cemetery near the Old City of Jerusalem, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
“Hundreds of lawbreakers and rioters threw stones, sticks and objects, launched fireworks and tried to harm the police forces on the spot,” the Israeli police said in a statement, as reported by the daily ‘Haaretz’. ‘.
The Palestinian Authority has indicated in a statement that the attack against the “mourners” of Walid al Sharif is a “brutal and barbaric act”, adding that “the occupying forces are no longer satisfied with committing their crimes against the lives of our people, but their violations extend to the sanctity of the dead and cemeteries,” according to the Maan news agency.
In addition, the National Movement for the Liberation of Palestine (Fatah) has considered that both the attack against the “martyr” Walid al Sharif and against “the corpse” of the “martyr” Shirín abu Aklé, are “fascist practices that are only practiced by the fascists,” according to the Wafa news agency.
These events take place after the death of the Al Jazeera journalist, the Palestinian Shirín abu Aklé, who was shot in the neck while covering Israeli military activities and despite the fact that she was wearing the vest that identified her as a journalist.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, criticized last week the “culture of impunity” in Israel regarding the death of Palestinians in actions by the Israeli security forces and has called for “surrender of counts”.
So far this year, Israeli security forces have killed 48 Palestinians, Bachelet’s office recalled in a statement. “Just this Saturday a young man, Walid al Sharif, has succumbed to the serious injuries he suffered in the Al Aqsa mosque compound on April 22,” he recalled.
The Esplanade of the Mosques – the third holy place of Islam – rests on one of its sides on the Wailing Wall, the last vestige of the Temple of Solomon that the most radical Jews intend to use as part of a Third Temple.
This year the tension has multiplied because the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincides with Jewish Passover and Christian Holy Week and its events in the city of Jerusalem, in the midst of a reinforcement of security operations by Israel after the attacks in recent weeks in the country.
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