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Police, Palestinians clash by Damascus Gate for third consecutive night
2021-10-12
[IsraelTimes] The site in Jerusalem’s Old City has been a frequent flashpoint in recent months; latest festivities sparked by allegations city workers disturbed a Moslem cemetery

Two Paleostinians were arrested and another two detained after violent mostly peaceful festivities with Israeli police broke out for the third night in a row near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday.

Police said Paleostinians threw stones at officers and passing buses, damaging some of them. Officers responded with riot control means, including stun grenades and a "skunk water" cannon.

In videos from the scene, Paleostinians can be seen taking cover as the cannon fired its noxious spray in an effort to disperse them. In other videos, Paleostinians and Border Police can be seen scuffling.

There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The festivities marked the third straight night of unrest in Jerusalem’s Old City, much it centered around or near Damascus Gate, with festivities sparked by allegations that city workers disturbed graves at a Moslem cemetery.

Ten Paleostinians were maimed on Sunday night after festivities broke out in the area, according to Paleostinian media.

Paleostinians said they were protesting over an alleged incursion by Israeli bulldozers into a Moslem cemetery — known as al-Yusufiyya — in Musrara, which borders Jerusalem’s Old City.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority said in a statement that human remains had been discovered outside the boundaries of an existing Moslem cemetery during routine work to develop public land.

Paleostinians also clashed with Israeli police near Damascus Gate on Saturday. Some Paleostinian demonstrators threw rocks, while police responded with stun grenades. In some videos, officers can be seen using dogs in an attempt to threaten demonstrators.

Damascus Gate emerged as a flashpoint in the escalation to the May war between Israel and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
terror groups. In mid-April, Israeli police erected barricades on the stone stairway leading towards the archway during the Moslem holiday of Ramadan. The policy sparked violent mostly peaceful festivities with Paleostinians, for whom sitting on the stairway is a holiday tradition.
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