Twenty-two Palestinians were injured and 11 arrested in overnight clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police forces near the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem in the early hours of Thursday, 6 May. The night’s violence is the latest round in a string of clashes that were triggered by protests by Jewish extremists attempting to enter the Muslim section of the Old City since the beginning of Ramadan. The clashes — some between Palestinians and Israeli protesters, others between Palestinians and Israeli police, and others yet between Israeli protesters and police — left hundreds injured and many arrested over the past weeks. “I CAN’T BREATHE!” #SaveSheikhJarrah pic.twitter.com/ANMVgJZBpL — Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 (@MuhammadSmiry) May 6, 2021 The US embassy in Jerusalem released a statement calling on the parties to end the incitement and avoid hate speech and violence as the protesters chanted racist anti-Arab rhetoric. The clashes occur against the backdrop of sharpening land tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Earlier this year, a Jerusalem district court ruled that the homes of four Palestinian families legally belonged to Jewish families, which is leading to the demolitions of houses, forced eviction and…
