Israel Police, Palestinians Clash at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa
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Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, police said.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the violence erupted when police opened one of the walled compound's gates to non-Muslim visitors, according to the regular visiting hours.
"Stones and a number of Molotov cocktails were thrown at police," he told AFP.
"Police responded by using stun grenades and entered the Temple Mount area," he added, using the Jewish term for the site where tradition says the biblical Jewish temples once stood.
A later police statement said that a woman was arrested and two policemen were slightly injured.
The temple site is revered as Judaism's holiest place. The compound also houses the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque, and is considered the third holiest site in Islam.
Although non-Muslim visitors are permitted, Jews are not allowed to pray at the site.
Rosenfeld could not say if Jews were among those seeking to visit the site on Sunday.
13 April 2014, 12:45
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"Where tradition says the biblical Jewish temples once stood."
i'm sorry, but it is a simple fact of history that the two temples stood there. There is no reasonable historian who would dipute this. The retaining walls of the temple are all still there, you ca hardly miss them. The romans built the colosseum on the profits fromTitus ransacking the temple. Is the collosseum also tradition?
come on, please be honest. Ic you want to deny jewish rights to the land, ok, but please be ho est to your readers.
13 April 2014, 12:48
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Temples stood there - fact, not tradition, no respectsble historian would deny this. The retaing walls are still there and are hard to miss!
