OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli police have entered Jerusalem’s holiest site to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who were throwing rocks.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Palestinian worshipers
rioted after Friday Muslim prayers at the hilltop site in the Old City
of Jerusalem. It’s known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as
the Noble Sanctuary, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands.
The contested site, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is built above the ruins of the biblical Jewish Temples, is one of the region’s most sensitive. Israeli steps to quell Palestinian disturbances there have led to full-blown riots in the past.
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