Shocking documentation: Arab young people storm Temple Mount

On Thursday, Aviah Morris (20) was documented by the Arabs, shouting "Muhammad is a pig" at Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount, and raised tensions at the Mount.

After her statement, the video circulated on Arab social networks, and on Friday she was arrested by police and released after interrogation, while distancing from the Old City. "It is impossible to be silent to humiliation of the Jews on the Temple Mount, there is incitement to murder. When we are degraded the police do not address it. Just as we begin to respond back the police knew to silence us," she said today (Sunday) in an interview with Channel 2 News Online.

According to her, the video led to many threats on her life: "I received hundreds of messages and threats of all kinds on the facebook network, threatened me with murder, and did not see the police treated it". Despite the threats she is not ready to change her behavior - and will come back to the Old City as soon as she is allowed to: "I will continue to come to the Old City and the Temple Mount, I'm not going to give them what they want."



200 visitors visited the mountain area. "Jerusalem police will continue to act responsibly and decisively to save the status quo on the Temple Mount and to allow visits as usual", police said.

At the same time police operational activity has constantly active dialogue in the face of the Waqf and the factors relevant for maintaining quiet in the Temple Mount.

For some time the police kept the peace and calls on the local leadership and the Waqf to show responsibility and maturity in the face of the young rioters, to prevent disturbances and keeping peace in the mountain area. The police will act with determination and you'll find zero tolerance toward any attempt to break the silence on all sides, and without bias. In addition, will locate and arrest rioters and extract the full court with them.

During my visit to the Mount of the Jews, a young came Jew wearing tefillin. The officer asked the young man to return before he is encountered, but he ignored and began to move toward the Temple Mount. Police approached him and asked him to return to the position of the inspection, after he refused and clutched the railing, objected and bit one of the policemen, he was arrested. During the visits, a Jewish visitor was detained violated the rules of the visit and called "Hear O Israel" - and was removed from the mountain. At the end of his interrogation he was released.

During the night (Saturday) Arabs barricaded themselves, some of them masked, in the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Young people gathered stones, planks and boards of wood and fireworks and prepared Molotov cocktails inside the al-Aqsa Mosque in order to confront the cops and impair daily visits and visitors to the area of the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av.

The youngsters also set up roadblocks to prevent the closure of the entrance to the Al Aqsa, including shoe racks, steel bars and wood, ropes tied to the doors of the mosque, and much more pallets that, in order to prevent the closure of the doors and prepare for violent confrontation with police officers. The youngsters positioned at the Al Aqsa plaza this morning, when masked and equipped with stones and fireworks. When police found the northern stairs of Al Aqsa started throwing stones at them and shoot fireworks.

The rioters took the shading umbrellas used for worshipers during Ramadan and placed them inside the mosque fortifications used as a hiding place for them, and behind the "hiding places" have been prepared for violent confrontation with police officers.

These actions of the young rioters indicate early preparations and intentions to stop the police to close the doors of the mosque, to confront and undermine police using stones, fireworks and Molotov cocktails prepared beforehand.

Police and Border Guard Force under the command of District Commander Moshe (Chico) Edery, entered the Temple Mount, masked rioters fled into the mosque and threw dozens of rocks and cement blocks at the police from Al Aqsa Mosque, shot fireworks canisters and sprayed at the police fluid which has not been identified.

The police forces have begun to remove the barriers placed at the entrance to the mosque entrance, while masked men continued to shoot fireworks at police. During forces entered the Temple Mount and during the confrontation with rioter's four policemen were slightly injured and Border Guard officers stones and an unidentified substance splashed on the officers of the al-Aqsa mosque. Two policemen were evacuated for medical treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem and two treated at the scene by a police medical power.

In view of the harsh confrontation and escalation of the actions of the rioters, in order to prevent further injury to police officers and to remove the barriers that control the doors and the floor came into force a few meters inside, managed to close the doors of the mosque when the attackers are inside, restored peace and allowed to open the Temple Mount for visit.

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