A culmination of violence around a holy site in Jerusalem escalated into rocket fire and military airstrikes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants.
Three terrorists wanted for previously attacking IDF forces were the targets of an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday morning.
"This attack constitutes an injury to the ability of the terrorist organization Hamas to strengthen and arm itself," the IDF statement added. Earlier Wednesday, as worshipers gathered in Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli police stormed into the Al-Aqsa Mosque to arrest alleged Palestinian agitators. Israeli police said they moved in after"several law-breaking youths and masked agitators" barricaded themselves into the mosque and began chanting violent slogans.
The police ended the disruption at the Jerusalem holy site — an area where religious practices are observed by Palestinians and Israeli people — by using rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the youthful crowds.
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