This is what the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had to say about escalating violence as Israel killed 20 Palestinians, wounded over 300 others in occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza
Hundreds of Palestinians were wounded after Israeli police forcibly removed worshippers from Al Aqsa Mosque, medics said, while radical Israelis cancelled a planned march to commemorate Israel's illegal annexation of the city in 1967.
At least 305 Palestinians have been wounded during the raid, Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement.Three people lost one eye each, said surgeon Firas Abu Akari at East Jerusalem's Maqassed hospital.Loud booms and angry screams echoed from the ancient stone walls of the compound, revered by both Jews and Muslims, where tear gas filled the air and the ground was littered with stun grenade fragments, plastic bullets and other debris.
Israel has been leading this escalation for weeks: new limitations on Palestinians celebrating Iftar in Jerusalem from the start of Ramadan, brutal force against protestors in Sheikh Jarrah, attacks inside of Al-Aqsa mosque, and now - killing 9 in Gaza, including 3 childrenEarlier police barred Jewish worshippers from visiting the site on Monday, which Israelis mark as "Jerusalem Day" to celebrate Israel's illegal annexation of the Palestinian city in 1967.
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