Posted on 04/18/22
| News Source: JPost
A projectile was fired from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel and intercepted on Monday evening, after clashes broke out on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif on Monday morning for the third day in a week, as Jewish visitors visited the site and worshippers gathered for birkat kohanim at the Kotel
Rocket sirens sounded in Kissufim and Ein Hashlosha on Monday evening, with the IDF Spokesperson's Unit confirming that one projectile was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel before being intercepted by air defenses.
Photos from the Temple Mount showed rocks piled up on the path taken by Jewish visitors to the site in an attempt to block the visitors.
Rubber bullets were reportedly fired by Israeli forces as they pushed Arab visitors into the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa, breaking some of the windows of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
As one of the groups of Jewish visitors walked in the site, Arab women standing near the Dome of the Rock began shouting "Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud" (a chant referencing the battle between Mohammed and a Jewish community in Khaybar in 628 CE), according to video shared on social media. The Jewish visitors responded by shouting "The people of Israel live," "Amalek," "Nakba," and "Abu Khdeir" (an apparent reference to the kidnapping and murder of an Arab by Israeli Jews in 2014).