Israeli police attacked Palestinian worshippers on Friday after storming the sit-in tent established in Silwan town to the north of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Local sources reported that Israeli police fired rubber-coated metal bullets and stun grenades at the worshippers and beat them during the raid into the Al-Bustan neighborhood.
For its part the Hamas Movement said that attacking Palestinian protesters in the Al-Bustan neighborhood by firing bullets and grenades at them and using wastewater cannons to disperse them is a brutal crime.
&ldquoThis attack constitutes part of the religious war waged against the Palestinian people&rdquo spokesman of Hamas for Occupied Jerusalem Muhammad Hamadeh stressed.
He affirmed that such an attack is part of the Israeli plans that aim at the forcible expulsion of Palestinians from their houses calling on Arab and Muslim countries to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Jerusalem.
