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A
mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists
atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli
police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by
the stone-throwers.
Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several
of them minors, for their role in the attack.
The attack is believed to have been
instigated by the former Muslim mufti of Jerusalem, Ekrama Sabri, who
told Palestinian media over the weekend that Jewish groups were planning
to break into the mosques that occupy the holy compound and desecrate
them.
Sabri urged all local Muslims to protect
the mosques from “the Israeli conspiracy against the city and its holy
places.”
Muslim religious figures regularly claim
that Israel is plotting to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa
Mosque to pave the way for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, which
the Muslims now insist never previously existed.
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