Major clash

Crowds flee as water cannon
approaches

What a night of violence! From 10.30pm police had begun shooting stun grenades and spraying skunk water at the crowds. Extremist jewish youths came in a crowd of about 400 (as some newspapers claim), and tried to enter the arab side of the City to attack them, shouting "Death to arabs". Arabs retaliated with stones and bottles. Police tried to separate both groups. Hundreds of police and horses and water cannons were employed. And the clash went on until 4am. Our whole neighbourhood stank from the skunk water sprayed by the water cannons.  https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/police-gearing-up-for-far-right-protest-in-jerusalem-666057?fbclid=IwAR2k8kiZ9P1YF9yJz_3VUG8dtrw2-nUZ3uD_h1Iecrg86aBnxyjtNTNbtxY

At 2am my neighbours messaged me saying the jewish group had entered the Old City up to the Austrian Hospice and 3rd Station of the Cross. Apparently the police allowed them to enter and vandalise the arab neighbourhood. I understood one house was partially burnt. It's been the most serious clash we've had in 5 years or so. https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-hurt-at-old-city-clash-as-extremist-jews-march-chanting-death-to-arabs/?fbclid=IwAR27YknhjhWGbOpbRxElfGcoT4mU3ME4skjL-p8TaPckTyjj4QlIw7zjmsM

Extremist Jewish youths
waiting in a corner

For sure today the arabs will continue their protest but the Jewish group will not come as it's the beginning of the Sabbath. But tomorrow night after the Sabbath, things may heat up again.

We could not sleep as the clashes went on till 4am. Then the street-cleaning trucks came to wash away the skunk water, but the chemicals floated into the air into our house. It was suffocating. When I went out to work, the streets were filled with police. It was like during the Intifada days. 

Well right now I'm very sleepy but I must finish a written work. Hope I have the energy to do it. My left eye is red and watery ... maybe it's due to the chemicals of the skunk water. I'll have to be careful going out as I could be allergic to them. That may explain why all night I was coughing and suffocating.