The Palestinian Red Crescent in Jerusalem announced that the number of casualties in the clashes in Jerusalem and the West Bank increased by israeli occupation soldiers rubber bullets, beatings and pepper gas to 199 injuries, where dozens of injured were taken to hospital for treatment while the rest of the injured were treated on the ground.
The Red Crescent also announced the opening of the field hospital at the ambulance centre in al-Sawana neighborhood.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accompanied dozens of Israeli settlers during the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque amid heavy guard.
Thousands of Israelis are taking part in the annual "March of Flags" on the streets of Jerusalem on the anniversary of the occupation of the eastern part of the city, a year after a war in the Gaza Strip erupted after last year's Jerusalem Day march.
The march, organized by Israelis on the anniversary of the "unification of Jerusalem", which they consider the capital of their state, angers Palestinians who seek East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.
The march was preceded by tensions and confrontations in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two tribes and the third of the Two Holy Mosques for Muslims. The "Temple Mount" is sacred to Jews, and at other points in the Old City, where Palestinians raised Palestinian flags on their homes, while groups of Israelis carrying Israeli flags marched through the streets with telephones and singers accompanying police officers.
Sacrilege
Hundreds of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, while Israeli police closed the Mercy Chapel and surrounded worshippers at the tribal mosque, while a Spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency accused Israel of "playing with fire responsibly and with extreme recklessness" by allowing settlers to desecrate jerusalem's holy sites.
Abu Nabil Abu Rudeineh was quoted by the Palestinian News Agency as saying in an interview with Voice of Palestine radio that Israel "flings at the international community, does not respect the resolutions of international legitimacy, and considers itself above the law, calling on the international community, especially the U.S. administration, to shoulder its responsibilities, in the face of what is happening and not to deal with duplication."
More than 500 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the side of bab al-Mughrab, under heavy guard from Israeli police, the Palestinian News Agency said Sunday, adding that police closed the tribal chapel, surrounded worshippers and retreats inside and arrested 10 youths from the door of the chain.
The agency quoted local sources as saying that dozens of Israeli police officers kept the settlers' incursions into al-Aqsa, spread out in its squares, closed the tribal chapel with iron chains, and surrounded the worshippers inside.
The same sources indicated that settlers had stormed the compounds in groups, each comprising 40 individuals, and carried out what it described as "provocative tours" of its courtyards.
For the first time, settlers performed what they called "epic prostration" in the courtyards of the mosque, the agency said. According to the agency, Israeli forces arrested 10 young men from al-Aqsa courtyards and at the door of the chain, and "assaulted an elderly man and removed him from the mosque". She added that a woman had suffered bruises and fractures as a result of an attack by Israeli forces in the courtyards of the mosque.
Meanwhile, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with dozens of Israeli settlers, broke into the Al-Buraq wall at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Netanyahu entered amid heavy security, coinciding with tensions in the march of Israeli flags.
The Palestinian News Agency quoted unnamed security sources as saying that a number of settlers blocked the street, waved Israeli flags and chanted slogans against Palestinians, which the agency described as racist.
The Israeli army has deployed large numbers of its soldiers in the Bab al-Amud area of Jerusalem in the wake of expected clashes over the "march of flags" there, Israeli media reported early Sunday
This comes at a time when Palestinian citizens from inside the Green Line are trying to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Palestinian media, which indicated that they had been prevented by Israeli forces.