The Prime Minister’s Office dismissed the allegation, saying, “The detailed arrangements for installing security cameras across the Temple Mount compound, as agreed on by Israel, Jordan and the United States, stipulate the move must be coordinated by the professional echelons, which will also determine the placement of the cameras”.
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“Yet when [the issue] has to do with Palestinians, it is a different [story] for Israel”.
Proposals to install surveillance cameras at Al-Quds flashpoint was dismissed by Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki who considered the measure a “new trap”. In all, 10 Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings, while 52 Palestinians, including 30 identified by Israel as attackers, have been killed by Israeli fire.
“Officials are interested in containing the current storm around Al-Aqsa…” “When a decision is made it will be implemented with coordination and approval of all the relevant parties”, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. While the majority are young men, and at least 15 of those slain were under 18 years old, women have also been targeted by Israeli occupation forces. “That their presence is backed by the security forces and government is worrying”.
“This morning I entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in spite of Netanyahu”, Ghattas said, adding, “Israel does not control who is banned from entering the mosque, and continues to change the status quo.”
Palestinians want the status quo to revert to what it was in 2000, when Jordan controlled access and not Israel, which often imposes restrictions. “This libel has sparked this unbelievable wave of violence”.
Muslims refer to the raised esplanade that includes the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque as the Noble Sanctuary and believe it is where the prophet Mohammad launched his night journey to heaven.
Now only Muslims are allowed to pray at the site while Jews are permitted to visit the area which sits atop the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.
The former territory known as Palestine ruled by the British and the Ottoman Turks until 1948 when it became Israel had both Jews and Arabs living in it, so the term “Palestinians” that Mr Spedding applies exclusively to the Arabs also applied to the Jews who were also Palestinian before 1948.
Joshua Sayles, director of the federation’s Community Relations Council, said after the protests that he wished they had stayed to the end because “we’re going to ask Yaron the tough questions that they wrote on their signs”. “Muslims used to pray facing the al-Aqsa mosque”.
An Israeli court has sentenced a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel to 11 months in jail on charges of “incitement”. Numerous Palestinian attackers involved in deadly assaults came from east Jerusalem neighborhoods.
Rumors of the potential revocation of rights sparked new unrest in the West Bank on Monday, with a 22-year-old Palestinian falling victim to Israeli forces after he reportedly stabbed an Israeli just outside the city of Hebron.
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“For Palestinians, increasing Jewish interest in and presence on the [Al-Aqsa] esplanade portends the too familiar”, read a June report released by the worldwide Crisis Group, which specializes in political analysis.
