Jerusalem, (IINA) - Israeli police violently suppressed a rally on Sunday that was organized by Palestinian women who have been banned by Israeli authorities from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem under 'security pretexts’.
According to WAFA, Israeli police quelled the rally using stun grenades against female protesters, nevertheless, no injuries were reported.
Dozens of Palestinian women have been protesting for months against being denied entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The forces detained one of the protesters who was identified as Hanadi Al-Halawani, a Qur'an teacher who was barred from entering the mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The Palestinian Territory, Gaza, and Israel have been engulfed in a wave of violence since early October 2015, fueled by Israel’s unilateral enforcement of a temporal division on the mosque between Muslims and Jews.
Since then, at least 185 Palestinian, including 43 children and nine women, were killed by Israeli forces’ fire, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Moreover, Israeli police secure the entry of Israeli settlers into the mosque’s compound almost on a daily basis, provoking tension with Muslim worshippers, who often respond by chanting religious slogans to protest their entry.
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