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Clashes break out in Jerusalem after Friday prayers

2014-11-07 47 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Violence resumed in Jerusalem on Friday (November 7) after prayers when stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli border police in east Jerusalem.<br/> <br />In the Shoafat district, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters hurling firecrackers and burning tires that sent up huge clouds of black smoke.<br/> <br />In overnight confrontations a police watch tower was hit by molotov cocktails in Shoafat, a video posted on social media showed.<br/> <br />No casualties were reported in Jerusalem but Palestinians said that at least seven people were injured in West Bank confrontations.<br/> <br />Jerusalem has seen a wave of unrest over the past four months, since before the July-August Gaza war. Violence has spiked in the past two weeks, with Palestinian drivers ramming into Israeli pedestrians, killing four people.<br/> <br />A focus of Palestinian and regional anger has been a dispute over Jerusalem's holiest site, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to J

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