Police said the goal of today’s move is to allow Jews to visit this sacred place in the usual way. According to her, the Palestinians prepared supplies of stones and set up barriers in anticipation of the violence.
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According to police, hundreds of young people, many of them with covered faces, had stones at their disposal, which they planned to use with iron bars and makeshift barricades to riot and try to prevent non-Muslims from inspecting the area. writes The Times of Israel.
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Police also said Palestinians threw stones at the buses right in front of the Old Town. Several buses broke on several buses and several passengers were slightly injured. According to the newspaper, rescuers took five people to the hospital.
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Five people are lightly hurt after Palestinians hurl stones at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City, MDA says. Police say two suspects have been arrested. pic.twitter.com/M7N6EZIGvH
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Overnight, a group of Palestinians on the Temple Mount also posted a banner of the Palestinian Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip.
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The complex, which Jews call the Temple Mount and the Muslims Haram al-Sharif (Noble Shrine), is a frequent place of Israeli-Palestinian clashes. There is a Muslim shrine, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and there used to be a Jewish temple, the remains of which are the Wailing Wall.
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Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians erupted at the scene on Friday, injuring more than 150 people. Police say they came to the area on Friday to disperse a crowd throwing stones at a place of worship at the Wailing Wall.
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Israeli police also arrested four Jews on Thursday who said they were offering money on Twitter to those who tried to ritually on the Temple Mount sacrifice goat before the Jewish holiday Passover. The ad was criticized by the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas called such a provocation “a dangerous escalation that transcends all red lines.”
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Tensions have risen in recent weeks following a series of Palestinian attacks that killed 14 people in Israel. Israel has launched a wave of arrests and military operations in the occupied West Bank, sparking clashes that have killed 16 Palestinians.
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