200+ Palestinians were wounded on Friday night when Israeli police fired rubber bullets at the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. At least 1 lost an eye.

"They are throwing bombs at the Muslim worshippers."

Palestinians are protesting planned evictions of 30+ families.
Israeli settlers are trying to evict Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem. The UN says that may be a war crime.

4 families in #SheikhJarrah face eviction as soon as Monday. Protesters say if it goes ahead, settlers will try to evict "every Palestinian who lives here."
30+ Palestinian families are facing eviction in occupied East Jerusalem under unequal Israeli law. The UN says evictions are "strategically focused" to expand illegal settlements and shift demographics.

Palestinians say it is "like they did in the Nakba in 1948, and in 1967."
Many of the Palestinian families facing eviction in #SheikhJarrah are refugees who were displaced from their homes in Haifa and Jaffa when Israel was founded.

One woman whose family is facing eviction said: "These are our homes since 1956, we were born here, we grew up here."
Israel is boosting troops in the occupied West Bank after protests over evictions of Palestinians in #SheikhJarrah.

Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades and locking people in. At least 205 Palestinians were wounded, most in the face.
Israeli police put up barricades in Jerusalem's old city, after raiding the Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday and wounding 200+ Palestinians.

Police have repeatedly blocked Palestinian access to holy sites in Jerusalem's old city during Ramadan.
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