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Israel By Hamodia Staff YERUSHALAYIM - Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 4:27 pm | י ג אייר תשפ א Arabs gather at Damascus Gate in Yerushalayim’s Old City, Motzoei Shabbos. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90) Israeli police have removed the barricades they had placed at Damascus Gate of the Old City of Yerushalayim, which had been the flashpoint of clashes over the past few nights. The barricades were set up to prevent young Arabs from east Yerushalayim from congregating there and instigating violence against police and Jewish passersby. But police evidently decided that more violence had been caused by their presence and ordered them taken down on Sunday evening, in the hope of reducing tensions. ....
37 shares israeli police remove a series of barriers that prevented crowds gathering at the Old City s Damascus Gate, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Palestinians celebrate after Israeli police remove a series of barriers that prevented crowds gathering at the Old City s Damascus Gate, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Israeli police officers stand near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem s Old City, on April 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Palestinian protesters raise national flags as they gather near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem s Old City, on April 25, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) Hundreds of Palestinians celebrated at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday evening after police halted a controversial policy that barred Muslim worshipers from congregating in the area during the holy month of Ramadan. ....
It also underlined “the necessity of preserving the historical identity of the occupied city of Jerusalem.” Israeli police and Palestinian men gather in a plaza outside of Jerusalem’s Old City, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Israeli police late Sunday removed barricades outside Jerusalem’s Old City that had prevented Muslims from meeting in a traditional gathering spot during the holy month of Ramadan. The barricades have sparked nightly clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police, and their removal appeared to be aimed at easing the tensions. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) The UAE statement did not mention the escalation in violence from Hamas, which has been firing rockets into Israel for the past three days from Gaza, also in response to the Jerusalem clashes. ....