Friday’s clashes in Jerusalem’s old City

by Sharique on February 10, 2007

A girl protests near the Al Aqsa mosque where Israeli soldiers targeted worshipers after the Friday prayers. [Reuters]

 

Maher al-Ami, a journalist for Jerusalem’s al-Quds newspaper, said: “We were at Friday prayers and suddenly they [the Israelis] began to shout and throw stun grenades.”

Adnan Husseini, director of the Muslim organisation Waqf, said: ‘We are surrounded. There is one gate still open but they [the Israelis] won’t let anyone leave.”[source]

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