Friday, February 9, 2007

MUSLIMS STAGE RIOT AT TEMPLE MOUNT

Police Confront Arab Rioters Friday on Temple Mount - Efrat Weiss (Ynet News)
After police managed to contain Muslim riots near the Temple Mount in protest of Israeli excavations there, Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi explained the disturbances were sparked by a group of masked youths who managed to infiltrate the site despite the over-45 age restriction.

A week of tensions reached its peak Friday afternoon, when police forced their way into the Temple Mount compound, firing stun grenades at rioters who hurled stones, Molotov cocktails and metal shards at policemen shortly after Friday prayers ended.

Five Arab youths were arrested outside the Old City, police said, for hurling stones and inciting for violence. A total of 17 arrests were made.

Clashes at Jewish-Muslim holy site in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli riot police armed with stun grenades have stormed Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound and clashed with Palestinian stone throwers at the most contested religious site in the Holy Land.

Fifteen Israeli policemen and at least 20 Palestinians were wounded in protests against nearby Israeli repair work, which Arab leaders charge endangers the mosque, as
smoke and explosions flared after Muslim prayers.

THE FRENCH NEWS AGENCY REFERS TO THE "TEMPLE MOUNT" BY ITS MUSLIM NAME "AL AQSA." IT ALSO JUXTAPOSES "POLICE ARMED WITH STUN GRENADES" WHO "STORM" THE MOSQUE COMPOUND WITH "PALESTINIAN STONE THROWERS." THEY MIGHT WANT TO ASK WHY IMANS INCITED PALESTINIANS AT FRIDAY PRAYERS TO HURL STONES AND BOTTLES ON JEWISH WORSHIPERS AT THE WESTERN WALL.

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