A Israeli police raid on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday has triggered a furious reaction from Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and the wider Arab and Muslim world.
Israeli police were filmed beating worshippers during raids that officials said were to dislodge groups of young men who had barricaded themselves inside the mosque.
The incident — which fell during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and which this year coincides with the Jewish Passover holiday that started on Wednesday evening — prompted retaliatory rockets from the Islamist militant group Hamas from within the Gaza strip, which in turn were answered by Israeli airstrikes.
The international community, including
