Israel-Palestine: Clashes on Temple Mount

At the end of Friday Prayers in Jerusalem, 15 police officers and dozens of Palestinians were hurt in Temple Mount clashes and three stone throwers were arrested.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement that Israel has crossed every red line and made prospects for peace even dimmer in ther confrontations with Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount.

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Abbas also said that the “occupation army” was “provoking” members of other faiths in a way that could “set off a religious war in the region”. He warned that “Israeli escapades” in east Jerusalem would have repercussions not just in the city and the Middle East, but also in the Muslim world. He urged the US and the international community to intervene and stop tensions from escalating further.


Syria also condemned Israel's "desecration of Arab and Islamic sanctities". A statement released by the Syrian Foreign Ministry said:

The desecration ... comes at a time when the majority of the Arab League Council's memebers adopted the indirect Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. The clashes serve as extra evidence on Israel's non-seriousness about peace ... and a proof of the Israeli anti-peace policy that aims at liquidating the Palestinian cause.