Riots on Temple Mount • site was closed to Jews

The person in charge of the Jerusalem Hamas, MP Ahmed Abu Halabia, called during a press conference in Gaza for Palestinian factions to resume attacks in Jerusalem and inside Israel for what he defined as crimes of Israel in Jerusalem and the holy places, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the violation of Palestinian prisoners' rights.

The comments were published by blogger Yoni Alper, adding that Ahmed Abu Halabia called upon Palestinians in the Arab and Muslim public and the free world to conduct mass marches on Friday for Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Mosque.

Meanwhile, the Temple Mount was closed again to Jews for the fourth time in a week, because of the onslaught of a Muslim group of women which stood at the entrance to the Temple Mount on a group of Jews entering the Temple Mount.

Police arrested one rioter, and all her friends got up to her aid, chased the police and rescued her from the police by force.

The Islamic Movement decided to make this Friday a day of protest for the violation of the Quran and Al Aqsa Mosque, and called imams and preachers in mosques to protest against Israel and the police and protect the holy Islam.

Last Sunday, police evicted a group of Muslim women which began to settle at the entrance to the Temple Mount in order to attack and to prevent entry of Jews to the holy place.

Immediately after, Muslims started shouting words of incitement against the police, claiming that one of the officers kicked the Qur'an book which was held by one of the women, knocking it to the floor and stepping on it.

Temple organizations require to open fall the gates of the Temple Mount to entry of Jews, to stop illegal discrimination at the place, and to decrease the pressure from the single gateway which enables only several dozen Muslims to dictate the closing of the Temple Mount to Jews and tourists again and again.

In Islamic forums the protest focused abnormally on one of the policemen whose picture was disseminated in Islamic media, with incitement calls to hit him, throw shoes at him, and even cut his head off.

Former Knesset Member Daniel Ben Simon who was present at the Temple Mount on Sunday morning and returned there in the afternoon, was stunned by the intensity of overt hostility against every Jew who comes to visit the place.

Ben Simon asked his escorts to cut short his visit to the Mount and "ran away" in less than ten minutes. According to him, all the years of his membership in the Knesset he was not aware of what is happening on the Temple Mount, and the powerful loss of personal security in place. Now after he realized what was happening at the place, Bensimon calls on Knesset members to visit the Temple Mount, observe what is happening there and see for themselves the severity of the problem, so that they hasten to handle it, before the loss of control explodes in our faces.

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