Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli forces at flashpoints in Jerusalem and across the West Bank on Friday, capping a week of demonstrations in support of four Palestinian prisoners on extended hunger strikes against their incarceration.
Two of the prisoners are being held without trial, and two were rearrested after being released in a prisoner exchange in 2011.
Israeli police briefly entered the compound of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, also known as the Temple Mount, and used stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters who pelted them with stones after Friday prayers, a police spokesman said.
Clashes also erupted after a march by hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron, where Israeli troops used stun grenades and tear gas to repel stone-throwers in the city’s old quarter, adjacent to several Jewish settlement enclaves, according to reports from the scene.
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