The Israeli occupation police on Saturday afternoon suppressed Palestinian citizens participating in a sit-in staged in Silwan district south of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli policemen violently dispersed the participants and intensively fired stun and tear gas grenades at them.
They said that Jerusalemite activist Suaad Abu Rumuz suffered a shrapnel injury when a stun canister exploded near her during the events.
The Israeli police claimed the sit-in was unlicensed to justify their use of violence against the participants.
They also said that masked young men threw stones and Molotov cocktails at their forces.
In a related incident the Hebrew news website Walla claimed that one policeman was slightly injured during clashes with young men in Silwan.
About 1500 Palestinian prisoners started on April 17 an open-ended hunger strike to demand basic rights.
