OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Three Palestinians were wounded when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked their Saadiya neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday evening local sources reported.
They said that fistfights took place between the attacking settlers who tried to force their way into one of the homes in the suburb and citizens who defended their homes.
Israeli occupation forces protected the settlers and later intervened to stop the fight after the citizens forcefully defended their homes which led to the injury of three of them and the detention of three others.
In a related development Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib the director of Islamic Waqf department in Jerusalem revealed that the Israeli occupation authority had taken away an ancient rock that dates back to the Umayyad era from the southeast area of the holy Aqsa Mosque.
Khatib said that Israeli technical teams used a giant crane to extract the big rock from one of the ancient Umayyad palaces and took it away in a big lorry.
He said that his department filed a protest with the police department that denied knowledge of the incident.
