They added that heavily-armed Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque from Bab al-Maghariba Gate, occupied the rooftops of several buildings, and fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters toward the worshippers, injuring 42.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its paramedics provided treatment to 42 Palestinians, mostly with upper-body injuries, and transferred 20 of them to al-Makassed Hospital.
It confirmed that the Israeli forces initially prevented medics’ access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and brutally assaulted a paramedic, inflicting bruises across his body.
Meanwhile, more than nine Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces today during the weekly protest against Israeli settlement construction in Qalqilia.
Morad Shtewi, a local anti-Israeli occupation activist, said that Israeli forces attacked the protesters with rubber bullets and gas canisters, injuring nine of them with rubber bullets, including two children.
Meantime, Tens of Palestinian protesters suffered suffocation from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces suppressed the weekly anti-colonization protest in the West Bank province of Nablus.
For years, Palestinian from Kafr Qaddum have been protesting every week on Friday against illegal Israeli settlements.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in illegal settlements across the occupied Palestinian Lands in violation the international law and Israel restricts Palestinians from movement through approximately 100 fixed checkpoints, settler-only roads, and the 70-kilometre-long apartheid wall.