BREAKING| Red Crescent: 20 injuries in Israeli attack on Sheikh Jarrah families
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- The Red Crescent said that its crews have dealt with 20 injuries during an Israeli attack on the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
According to a brief statement by the Red Crescent, the injuries including 16 with pepper spray. They also include two with rubber-coated metal bullets and two others with beating.
An elderly man is among the injuries, as Israeli forces and settlers attacked him wounding his head.
Israeli forces and settlers have attacked the neighborhood this night. Dozens of settlers threw stones at houses, while Israeli forces sprayed ambulances with skunk water.
Video footage shows settlers starting fires across the neighborhood.
Muhammad Al Kurd, an activist from the neighborhood, said that Israeli forces gassed inside the Qasem family living room, while settlers threw Molotovs at other homes.
Zionist settlers are starting fires all over Sheikh Jarrah. These are the sadistic barbaric neonazi pigs that claim to be indigenous to our land. #SaveSheikhJarrah pic.twitter.com/dcgbz437no
— Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) June 21, 2021
#Watch | Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, and the Israeli forces are covering their racist attacks by using batons and stun grenades against the Palestinians!!#SaveSheikhJarrah pic.twitter.com/hSQPe9atVK
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 21, 2021
The Israeli occupation forces assaulted a Palestinian man in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, chained his hands, and now they're hindering the work of the paramedics who are trying to give him first aid!#SaveSheikhJarrah #Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/6vJ0DvnS47
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 21, 2021