The Israeli police on Sunday attacked a group of Palestinian women and girls who were protesting in Occupied Jerusalem against settler demonstrations.
Media sources reported that the Israeli police closed many roads which the settler marches are planned to pass on and deployed its forces in large numbers in the holy city especially in Bab al-Amud area.
The sources added that Israeli special forces assaulted a group of women taking part in a protest against the “March of Flags” organized by Israeli settlers and pushed them away from the place.
The police further restricted the movement of journalists who came to cover the protests and forced them to stay in one place.
National and Islamic forces in Jerusalem had called on Palestinian citizens to take to the streets on Sunday to confront the March of Flags launched by Israeli settlers to celebrate the Jerusalem Reunification Day a day that marks the Israeli occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967.
The Israelis this year celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in the 1967 war also known as “June setback”.
