Dozens of Palestinians performed the weekly Friday prayer outdoors today in Wadi al-Hummus area, in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher, in protest of Israel's demolition last week of several homes for their proximity to the Israeli segregation barrier in the area.

Dozens of citizens were suffocated with tear gas during clashes with the Israeli army, confrontations with the occupation army broke out after the citizens performed Friday prayers in the sit-in tent in Wad al-Homs area, during which tear gas was fired, causing dozens of suffocation.

On July 22, Israel demolished 10 Palestinian-owned buildings in Sur Baher’s Wadi al-Hummus area and displaced dozens of Palestinians in the process, many of them children. The demolition received wide scale condemnation.

The claim is that the buildings present a security risk to Israel's so-called "security barrier", also known as the apartheid wall, 85 percent of which runs through the Palestinian occupied territories cutting and dividing Palestinian land and communities.