Israel's overnight raid of the Al-Aqsa mosque sparked outrage and condemnation across the occupied West Bank and beyond. Police clashed with dozens of Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem's holy site, saying they were responding to rioting.

The incident, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and on the eve of the Jewish Passover, came amid fears that tensions built up during a year of escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Palestinian militants fired at least nine rockets from Gaza into Israel overnight, prompting air strikes from Israel which hit what it said were weapon production sites for the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the blockaded coastal enclave.

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