Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem after Palestinian groups called for a "day of rage" over the reopening of a synagogue in the Old City. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli police who responded with stun grenades in the Shuafat and Essawiyya neighborhoods early on Tuesday. At least 90 people were wounded in the clashes, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, with around 15 people seriously hurt by rubber-coated steel bullets, teargas inhalation and some beaten by Israeli police. Security forces have said about eight police were lightly injured and about 60 arrests were made. About 3,000 police officers had been deployed in east Jerusalem and nearby villages after Hamas called for action in response to the reopening of the Hurva synagogue. The Hurva synagogue, considered by some people to to be one of Judaism's most sacred sites, reopened for the first time in 62 years on Monday in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The walled Old City is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which makes the reopening of the synagogue controversial. Moreover, al-Aqsa, Islam's third holiest site, and the Hurva are about just 700 metres apart.
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