Clashes at Al-Aqsa after extremists break in

[sister herb]

Published today (updated) 27/09/2009 11:42

Jerusalem – Ma’an – At least 13 Palestinians were injured as fierce clahes broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem on Sunday morning after Israeli police permitted settlers to break into the area, witnesses said.

Two of the injured Palestinians reportedly sustained serious injuries to the eye and head. Israeli police said two officers were also hurt.

On Thursday, the Al-Aqsa Foundation had warned of an impending attack. Officials in Jerusalem said extremists were preparing to break into the holy Muslim area and accurately predicted that the break-in would occur on Sunday, under the pretext of celebrating an upcoming religious holiday.

Confrontations erupted after groups of Israelis broke into the compound, reportedly under the guard of Israeli police. Palestinians hurled stones, chairs, and shoes at the Israelis, while police tried to disperse the Palestinians by force, injuring nine people at first.

Further confrontations erupted outside the compound near Majlis Gate, one of the main entrances to the compound. Witnesses said police prevented Palestinian worshippers from entering the area. Four were injured in a new wave of clashes, witnesses said. One of those four was also hit in the eye. Palestinian sources said some of the injured were evacuated from the compound while the rest remained inside.

For their part, Israeli police said only two Palestinians were injured in the clashes.

Hundreds of Jerusalemites and Palestinians living inside Israel hurried to the mosque compound when word of the clashes spread, but Israeli police closed all entrances in what they said was an effort to contain the fighting. Demonstrators gathered outside the main gates chanting and denouncing the occupation, and what they called assaults against holy places and residents in Jerusalem.

Israeli police also prevented Islamic notables such as Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, chief of the Islamic Supreme Committee, and grand mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, from accessing Al-Aqsa. Hatim Abdul-Qadir, former PA minister of Jerusalem affairs and current Fatah representative on Jerusalem, was also denied access to the mosque.

Israeli police produced an order preventing Abdul-Qadir from accessing Al-Aqsa until further notice, under the pretext that he urged demonstrators to gather at the compound to counter settler groups attempting to break into the mosque area.

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[podolski11]

salam alaykum

hmmpppffff.....if only the pakistan would intervene and say if u hurt one more JZ 1 MORE palestinian again it will b ur end on this earth!......i mean we got 1 of the best intelligence agencies in the world...we r a nuclear power but yet we can hardly even help ourselves ......Allah(swt) plz send imam mahdi to help us ...ameen

 

[Fatima S.Ar]

My heart hurts me when I read something like that

 

[sister herb]

Jerusalem

Syria

Gaza

the West Bank

 

[Hard Rock Moslem]

I think Israel's atrocity is coming to an end very soon....

 

[muslimda3ee]

:salam2:

it seems that they are trying very hard to cause more and more problems for muslims there.

la hawla wa la guwatin illah billah

it could be they are trying to pave the way for the Dajjal(anti-christ) in which they believe it will be their savior.

anyways here is a video in Arabic(but you will see some live drama) the ambulance driver said they prevented him from getting through for a long period of time(like an hour or hour and a half).

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may Allah protect and bring sakina to all the muslims all over this planet.

 

[abubaseer]

Allahumma alayka Bil Yahood!

 

[sister herb]

Islamic Christian soc: Israel to enforce Jewish prayer time at Aqsa
Published today (updated) 29/09/2009 20:01

Ramallah – Ma’an – Israel plans to allow Jewish worshipers to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a regular basis, dividing prayer time between Muslims and Jews, officials at the Islamic Christian Society in Support of Jerusalem said Monday.

Currently Israeli citizens are not permitted to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Haram Ash-Sharif. On Sunday, however, clashes broke out inside the sanctuary when extremist Jews - reports dispute whether or not the culprits were Israeli citizens - entered the area along with Israeli soldiers. The compound was locked down during the clashes and 13 were injured. Israeli forces also raided Palestinian Jerusalem and detained dozens military sources say were involved in the clashes.

According to the society, there will be 50 Jewish holidays on which Jews will have exclusive access to the compound for worship. The religious calendars of the Muslim and Jewish faith often overlap, with the Jewish Rosh Hashana holiday coinciding with the final Friday of the Muslim Ramadan. The society calls the decision “unacceptable.”

Officials, including Sheikh Taisir At-Tamimi, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Dr. Hasan Khater, Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsour and Father Manuel Musallam from the society spoke at a news conference Monday in Ramallah. They warned that such a policy was dangerous, and “went beyond the red line.”

The religious leaders then appealed to Palestinian leaders to seek a national agreement so they could prevent Israel from taking over the site, which Jews believe is the place where the Second Temple stood. Plans from extremist and even moderate right wing groups to raze Al-Aqsa and build a Third Temple have been repeatedly uncovered.

The leaders called the plan a war crime, noting there were attacks on Al-Aqsa from “above and below,” referring to the contentious excavation work Israel is carrying out on tunnels beneath the compound.

The officials called all the Muslims to fast on Thursday and all the Christians to pray on Sunday as an expression of solidarity with Jerusalem and all the holy places in the city.

Sheikh Taisir At-Tamimi urged Palestinians to attend worship ceremonies in the Olc City of Jerusalem and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular, in order to stave off encroaching Israeli presence in the area.

The Archbishop Atallah Hanna asked all Christians to join their fellow Muslims in prayer on Sunday to be in solidarity with Al-Aqsa mosque. He stressed that targeting Al-Aqsa is only the beginning of targeting the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

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