Israeli security clashes clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on Thursday evening during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

The footage filmed on April 7 shows security forces beating and detaining several Palestinians. Tensions gradually intensify and more and more young men are being chased or led away.

Local reports said it was the sixth consecutive night that Israeli police cracked down on Palestinians who gathered in East Jerusalem.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Jerusalem - 08 April 2022. Israeli security forces detain Palestinians during clashes in front of Damascus gate which leads to Jerusalem's old city during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan

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For the sixth consecutive night, Israeli police Thursday night cracked down on Palestinians who gathered at Bab al-Amoud in the city of East Jerusalem and detained three, according to WAFA correspondent.

She said that heavily-armed police rounded up three young men from Bab al-Amoud, a popular meeting spot for Palestinians to gather and socialise, and chased after dozens others, pushing them to the Sultan Suleiman Street.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces denied hundreds of Palestinians from the West Bank entry into the occupied city of Jerusalem through Qalandiya checkpoint to perform the Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Since the first night of Ramadan, police have erected iron barriers to restrict the seating space and the movement of Jerusalemites, and set up a mobile police center near Damascus Gate on the second night.

Some 3,000 police officers are deployed in the vicinity of the mosque compound and across the city with the deployment of overt and covert forces at Damascus Gate.

Police have fired stun grenades and gas bombs towards the Palestinian crowd and indiscriminately and violently assaulted many others in nighttime confrontations that began on the second day of Ramadan.

The current tensions are reminiscent of the 2021 May and Ramadan tensions over Israeli settler takeover of Palestinian property in Shekh Jarrah and encroachments upon the mosque compound.

During the 2021 Ramadan month, Jerusalem saw protests and night-time confrontations between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers, with tensions mounting over the police decision to ban people from sitting on the stairs outside Bab al-Amoud under the guise of implementing the coronavirus rest