Jerusalem police late Wednesday night broke up an illegal meeting of 30 Islamic Jihad and Hamas leaders in Jerusalem and threw stun grenades after the participants refused to leave. Galilee Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Raed Salah was treated at a hospital and released, and no other injuries and no arrests were reported.

The Hamas terrorist party is prohibited from carrying out political activities in Jerusalem, which the Palestinian Authority (PA) wants to establish as the capital of a new Arab state.