Jerusalem – Israeli police fired stun grenades on Sunday to disperse 150 Palestinians who hurled stones at Jewish worshipers visiting a sensitive religious site in the Old City before the start of the holiest day for Jews.
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Two policemen were lightly wounded, a spokesman said, and Palestinian medics said they evacuated a Palestinian man suffering from a head injury. Police restored calm and closed the complex after the incident.
The incident occurred before Yom Kippur in the complex known to Jews as the Temple Mount it overlooks the Western Wall.
Israel captured the Temple Mount in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it with the rest of East Jerusalem, in a move not recognised internationally.
Israeli police are on alert in mixed Arab-Jewish cities, including Jerusalem, fearing riots on Yom Kippur when many Jews fast and abstain from driving.
On the eve of Yom Kippur last year, Jewish youths in the Israeli town of Acre attacked an Arab man who drove into a mostly Jewish district disturbing the start of the 24-hour fasting day. Several homes and shops were damaged in ensuing riots.
The Temple Mount is the most sacred site in Judaism.
good for them, its ussir & a big sin to go on har habayit
reply to #1 ,,, are you saying it would be good for them if they were murdered too… you are not the one to decide if it is ussar to go there or not,,, there are different opions by all…
Yoely, you sure know how to go into Yom Kippur. Good going!
we’re better off not messing around with the Kodesh HaKadashim
Nothing like sinas chinam erev yom kippur. They were at the parts that any well minded person with hal a brain who can read basic biblical hebrew will know to be not the kodesh kedoshim. Its not their fault your yahadus education ended in 3rd grade!
According to some shitos, there are parts of the Har Habayis that one is allowed to go up on. It could be these Jews were in those parts.
I wish I could daven there. and its time to kick the arab occupiers out of our holy place they cause to much trouble. hope this year there won’t b fighting so everyone can pray
Why is it “Aparteid” and “Illegal” to bar Arabs from rights in Israel, but when the Arabs demand a “Judenrein” Har HaBayis, Gaza and West Bank, the world is resoundingly silent?
“The mashmaios from the Rambam”
The Rambam says that it’s a mitzvah to go up to the Har HaBayit even today.
He also writes in a letter that he went up himself.