OCCUPIED JERUSALEM -- Five residents of eastern Jerusalem were
charged with planning a shooting attack on the Temple Mount.
The Palestinian men, aged 20 to 25, were charged Wednesday with
attempted kidnapping, attempted murder, aiding the enemy at a time of
war, contact with a foreign agent and weapons charges, according to
Ynet.
The indictment filed in Jerusalem District Court said the men planned
to kill Jewish worshipers at the Temple Mount and to throw a grenade
into the Israel Police station in eastern Jerusalem, as well as kidnap a
Jewish man and kill him with his own weapon. The indictment said they
abducted a Jewish man hitchhiking near Givat Zeev last month but
released him since he did not carry any firearms.
The men, who met several times in February and March, had turned to
terror groups in the West Bank and Gaza for weapons and explosives
training, according to the indictment.
They have been remanded to police custody for the duration of their trials.
Also Wednesday, Likud lawmaker Miri Regev said she would visit the
Temple Mount to examine the possibility of Jews being allowed to pray
there.
"I don't understand why a Jew is not allowed to pray in the most
sacred place for him, the Temple Mount," Regev said shortly after being
elected chair of the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee.
Jews generally are not permitted to pray or bring any ritual objects
to the Temple Mount, which is considered Judaism's holiest site, in
order to avoid confrontation with Muslim worshipers at the Al-Aksa
Mosque, Islam's third holiest site. The site is overseen by the Muslim
Wakf.
Likud lawmaker Moshe Feiglin has been denied access to the site, and
he has been arrested for praying there. Feiglin visits the Temple Mount
once a month on the 19th of the Hebrew month, and often brings visitors
with him.
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Thursday 18 April 2013
"Five charged with planning attacks on Jews at Temple Mount"
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