Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israeli extremists’ assaults on Palestinians in East Jerusalem, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Mr Abbas warned against the repercussions of attacks on residents and attempts to take over Palestinian properties in Jerusalem, particularly in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, said a WAFA report.

“This matter will be on the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s executive committee,” Mr Abbas said, referring to a visit by a controversial far-right Jewish lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir to the neighbourhood.

On Sunday evening, clashes broke out as Ben Gvir of the Religious Zionism alliance opened a parliamentary office in Sheikh Jarrah, calling it an effort to show support for the Jewish residents in the neighbourhood.

In a statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its medical teams treated 32 Palestinians shot and wounded by Israeli police forces in the city.

Israel captured East Jerusalem during the 1967 six-day war and annexed it in 1968, a move that most of the international community does not recognise.

The Palestinians want to have East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, while Israel insists on having a unified Jerusalem as its eternal capital.

(Xinhua/NAN)