Saleh has previously been imprisoned in Israel for scuffling with police near al-Aqsa and being convicted of sending money to needy Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israeli prosecutors said was to be used by anti-Israel militant groups.
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Israeli and Jordanian officials said Tuesday that new surveillance cameras should be installed within days at the walled Jerusalem shrine at the epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence, with the goal of streaming the footage live on the Internet for maximum transparency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will seek to outlaw the Islamic Movement’s northern section, which he says has been encouraging attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs in a wave of violence that began on October 1.
“The cameras will document everything, including those who want to assault Palestinians or Israelis”.
Hours later, the army stated it had shot dead one other Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier within the Palestinian metropolis of Hebron.
PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called the idea of cameras, which was proposed under the direction of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a “trap”.
Palestinian officials gave the camera plan a cool reception. While Kerry hailed it as a possible “game-changer”, Palestinians were suspicious.
An official who attended the meeting said the review would look at “all the issues” affecting these neighborhoods, including residency rights, which are coveted by Palestinians because they allow them to work and move freely inside Israel and gain access to Israeli health care and social services.
Azzam Khatib, director of the Islamic authority that oversees Muslim affairs at the site, said Monday that Israeli police prevented work crews from installing cameras at the entrance to the compound.
Israel has welcomed the plan, saying the cameras will prove it is doing nothing wrong and expose violent activities by Palestinian protesters. Mayor Nir Barkat’s office also refused to discuss Netanyahu’s latest proposal, though in the past the mayor has said he has worked hard to narrow the gaps between the city’s western and eastern sections.
Increasing numbers of spiritual Jews visiting the compound, which is Islam’s holiest website outdoors Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the situation of two destroyed biblical temples, have led to Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a “established order” beneath which Jewish prayer there’s banned.
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Information for this article was contributed by Josef Federman of The Associated Press and Calev Ben-David of Bloomberg News.
