22 Palestinians, including 9 children, martyred in Israeli air strikes
At least 22 Palestinians were killed, including nine children, as Israel committed deadly air strikes on Monday in Gaza Strip .
On the opposite hand, Israel claimed it had struck 130 "military targets" in Gaza and had taken out 15 Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives.
"We have struck 130 military targets belonging mostly to Hamas," the Islamist group that controls the blockaded Gaza Strip , Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters.
"According to our current estimates we've killed 15 Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives," he said.
Tensions in Jerusalem persist after Israeli police brutality
Tensions in Jerusalem have flared since Israeli riot police attacked Palestinian worshippers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan within the city's worst disturbances since 2017.
Nightly unrest since then at the Al-Aqsa compound has left many Palestinians wounded, drawing international involves de-escalation and sharp rebukes from across the Muslim world.
Diplomatic sources told AFP that Egypt and Qatar, who have mediated past Israeli-Hamas conflicts, were attempting to calm tensions.
Israeli security forces fired rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, wounding hundreds before a rally by hardline Jewish groups to celebrate "Jerusalem Day," commemorating Israel's victory within the 1967 Six-Day War. The protesters retaliated by throwing stones and other objects at the police. Palestinians reported stun grenades fired into the mosque complex, with dozens injured.
Since Friday, Israeli police are constantly attacking Palestinian worshippers within the mosque, amounting to almost 300 injured over the weekend. Most of the injuries were caused by rubber-coated bullets fired by police, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.
The attack on Islam's third holiest site and around East Jerusalem coincides with Israel's decision to evict Palestinians from their homes ashore claimed by Jewish settlers, drawing condemnation from several countries for both the violence at Al-Aqsa and therefore the evictions.
Tensions in Jerusalem have soared in recent weeks as Palestinians have protested against Israel's restrictions on access to parts of the Old City during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and after authorities ordered several Palestinian families to go away their homes to form way for Israeli settlers.
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