REPORT: Israel faces mounting Palestinian anger over holy site metal detectors

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2017-07-20 | 10:22
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REPORT: Israel faces mounting Palestinian anger over holy site metal detectors

Tensions remain high ahead of Friday prayers when thousands of Muslims usually flock to al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, in the compound above Judaism's sacred Western Wall.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing whether to remove metal detectors at a

Jerusalem holy site whose installation after a deadly attack last week has stoked Palestinian protests, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Thursday.

 

There have been nightly confrontations between Palestinians hurling rocks and Israeli police using stun grenades in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem since the devices were placed on Sunday at entrances to the Temple Mount-Noble Sanctuary compound.

 

Muslim religious authorities, who say the metal detectors violate a delicate agreement on worship and security arrangements at the site, have been urging Palestinians not to pass through, and prayers have been held near an entrance to the complex.

 

 

REUTERS

 

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