{O/C} Israeli security forces entering the third-holiest Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in the name of removing rocks and stones there has sparked clashes that wounded at least 67 Palestinians.
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This video purportedly shows Palestinians pelting the police with rocks, with the police firing tear gas and stun grenades in an attempt to quell the unrest.
Others barricaded themselves inside the mosque amid clouds of tear gas.
67 people were sent to area hospitals after being hurt by rubber-coated bullets or stun grenades, or beaten with batons.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying dozens of men donning masks and carrying Palestinian and Hamas flags to the compound early Friday and gathered stones, plausibly in anticipation of the violence that erupted today.
The site, deemed sacred to both Jews and Muslims, has long been the epicentre of Israeli-Palestinian unrest amid soaring tensions.
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