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Jerusalem crisis: Pleas for calm as violence escalates

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 레악카나기자 송고시간 2021-05-12 02:20

The violence didn’t abate overnight and the sound of Palestinian rockets and Israeli airstrikes echoed across the region on Tuesday morning. (Photo from BBC)

[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] There have been appeals for calm after days of unrest in Jerusalem spiraled into retaliatory attacks by Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. BBC reported that the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom have urged both sides to lower tensions as soon as possible.

Militants have fired more than 300 rockets towards Israel since Monday night, injuring 31 Israelis. Israel says its airstrikes on Gaza have hit 130 targets. Health officials say 24 Palestinians have been killed. The militant group Hamas, which controls the Palestinian territory, said it’s acting to defend Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque from Israeli "aggression and terrorism" after the site, which is holy to Muslims and Jews, saw clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians on Monday that left hundreds injured.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas had "crossed a red line" by firing rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time in years and that Israel would respond "with great force". The past few days have seen the worst violence in Jerusalem since 2017. It followed mounting Palestinian anger over the threatened eviction of families from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers, fuelled by a month of altercations between protesters and police in the predominantly Arab part of the city.


 

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