{"id":1444137,"date":"2022-04-18T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444137"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:46:19","slug":"palestinian-riots-erupt-within-jerusalem-over-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palestinian-riots-erupt-within-jerusalem-over-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Riots Erupt within Jerusalem Over Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpalestinian-riots-erupt-within-jerusalem-over-passover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Israeli police battled Palestinian rioters in Jerusalem over the first weekend of Passover, as tensions remained high following weeks of violence and terrorism in Israel that have seen dozens killed.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the first day of the Jewish holiday, police <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-religion-jerusalem-israel-arrests-03ebd01a1e69b177941165c1f3db7d75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clashed<\/a> with Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa mosque who threw stones toward the Western Wall.<\/p>\n<p>That clash fueled further violence through the weekend, according to the<em> Jerusalem Post<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/arab-israeli-conflict\/article-704366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Arabs on Saturday fought with Israeli forces outside the Jerusalem Magistrate&#8217;s Court following reports that Israel would not release some of those arrested at the Al-Aqsa mosque.<\/p>\n<p>That same night, Israeli forces made an arrest after Arabs raised a banner at the Temple Mount that read, &#8220;Hamas calls on you for a general mobilization and to push out the herd of settlers who are threatening to storm al-Aqsa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Violence <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-religion-jerusalem-israel-arrests-03ebd01a1e69b177941165c1f3db7d75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">escalated further<\/a> on Sunday. Israeli police entered Al-Aqsa mosque to protect Jewish visitors&#8217; access to the site, and they clashed with Palestinians occupying the mosque, who reportedly set up barricades and gathered stones with which to fight police. Palestinians also launched fireworks from within the mosque. At least 17 Palestinians were injured during fighting with police.<\/p>\n<p>Several people received minor injuries Sunday when Palestinians threw stones at buses carrying Jewish passengers outside Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, home to holy sites including the Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock, and the Al-Aqsa mosque. A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avigad27\/status\/1515571557120331779?s=20&#038;t=yFrJD17Q8Jw6zKrkuOb46w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> shared online showed Jewish children taking cover inside a bus as rioters threw stones through the windows. Jewish worshipers walking in the Old City were also attacked, the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/arab-israeli-conflict\/article-704366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamist Ra&#8217;am party on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/raam-mulls-coalition-membership-freeze-amid-temple-mount-tensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> it would temporarily withdraw its membership in the Knesset in protest over Israeli forces&#8217; clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend saw a rare overlap of the Jewish Passover, Muslim Ramadan, and Christian Easter holidays, fueling religious tensions. Israel has seen fierce violence since March in the form of terrorist attacks and clashes between security forces and Palestinians. Fourteen Israelis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-wave-terrorism-terrorist-attack-israel-sunni-arab-jews-shootings-killing-jihad-islamist-tel-aviv-bnei-brak-hadera-beersheba-sunni-arab-11649693150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been killed<\/a> in terror attacks since March 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli police battled Palestinian rioters in Jerusalem over the first weekend of Passover, as tensions remained high following weeks of violence and terrorism in Israel that have seen dozens killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}