BREAKING: Over 50 people were wounded in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Al-Aqsa Mosque and elsewhere in Jerusalem as weeks-long tensions between Israel and the Palestinians over the city soared again.
Israeli forces inspect the scene of a shooting attack where bodies of two Palestinian gunmen, killed by Israeli border police, lie on the ground in front of the military base of Salem near the West Bank town of Jenin, Friday, May. 7, 2021. Israeli troops shot and killed the two men and wounded a third after they opened fire on a border police base in the occupied West Bank. It was the latest in a series of violent confrontations amid soaring tensions in Jerusalem.
The clashes were the latest in a deadly day that saw Israeli forces shoot and kill two Palestinians after three men opened fire on an Israeli base in the occupied West Bank. In the attack on Friday morning, Israeli police said three attackers fired on the base near the northern West Bank town of Jenin. The Border Police and an Israeli soldier returned fire, killing two of the men and wounding the third, who was evacuated to a hospital.
Israel’s archenemy Iran was meanwhile marking its own Quds, or Jerusalem, Day on Friday. The national holiday typically features anti-Israel protests and fiery speeches by Iranian leaders predicting Israel’s demise. Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with the West Bank and Gaza — territories the Palestinians want for their future state — in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized internationally and views the entire city as its capital.
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