{"id":33886,"date":"2017-07-15T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T09:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/33886-security-tight-holy-site-shut-after-jerusalem-attack.html"},"modified":"2017-07-15T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T09:58:53","slug":"security-tight-holy-site-shut-after-jerusalem-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/33886-security-tight-holy-site-shut-after-jerusalem-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Security tight, holy site shut after Jerusalem attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security forces locked down parts of Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday and an ultra-sensitive holy site remained closed after an attack that killed two police officers and heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions.<\/p>\n

Three Arab Israeli assailants opened fire on Israeli police Friday in the Old City before fleeing to the nearby Haram al-Sharif, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, where they were shot dead by police.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities said they had come from the flashpoint holy site, which includes the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, to commit the attack.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities took the highly unusual decision to close the Al-Aqsa mosque compound for Friday prayers, leading to anger from Muslims and Jordan, the holy site's custodian.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signalled it is to remain closed until at least Sunday while security was assessed.<\/p>\n

He also spoke of increasing security at entrances to the holy site when it reopens -- likely to be a controversial move.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, there was restricted access through Damascus Gate, the main entrance used by Palestinians into Jerusalem's Old City, with only residents with identification being allowed to pass.<\/p>\n

Around 20 Palestinians waited at police barriers near Damascus Gate to see if they would be let through.<\/p>\n

\"This is not security. This is punishment,\" said Bader Jweihan, a 53-year-old accountant for a bus company who was trying to get to work but was refused entrance there.<\/p>\n

\"They want to punish the Arab Jerusalem citizens.\"<\/p>\n

Musa Abdelmenam Qussam, 73 and with poor eyesight, was being helped by one of his grandsons as he walked with a cane and sought to enter through the police barrier.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The owner of a book wholesale shop in the Old City, he said he usually prays at Al-Aqsa every day.<\/p>\n

\"This mosque is not only for Muslims. Tourists come,\" he said after being denied entrance.<\/p>\n

\"This city is for all the world. It must be open.\"<\/p>\n

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- 'Stressed me a little' -<\/h2>\n

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Jaffa Gate, heavily used by tourists and near the Old City's Jewish Quarter, was open but with a heavy police presence.<\/p>\n

A group of tourists from Poland said they were concerned when they heard about the shooting on Friday but wanted to continue their visit.<\/p>\n

They were on their way to do some shopping in the Old City and visit the nearby Garden of Gethsemane, where Christians believe Jesus prayed the night before his crucifixion.<\/p>\n

\"It stressed me a little,\" said Ewa, who did not want to give her last name or age.<\/p>\n

At Lions Gate near the site of the attack, police guarded the entrance and restricted access, checking IDs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The attack and aftermath was one of the most serious incidents in Jerusalem in recent years.<\/p>\n

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Netanyahu spoke by phone on Friday as tensions rose in the wake of the incident.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities also detained Jerusalem's top Muslim cleric, grand mufti Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, as crowds gathered at the gates of the Old City after the attack, his son said.<\/p>\n

He was released later Friday after being questioned, according to another of his sons.<\/p>\n

With Al-Aqsa closed, crowds gathered at Old City gates and held Friday prayers there.<\/p>\n

The mufti had criticised the closure of Al-Aqsa before being detained.<\/p>\n

\"I have very little information about it, but it doesn't mean you should close the mosque for prayers,\" he had told journalists at the Lions Gate entrance to the Old City.<\/p>\n

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- Dispute over mosque closure -<\/h2>\n

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The Haram al-Sharif \/ Temple Mount is central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Palestinians fearing Israel may one day seek to assert further control over it.<\/p>\n

It lies in east Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed in a move never recognised by the international community.<\/p>\n

It is considered the third-holiest site in Islam and the most sacred for Jews.<\/p>\n

Jews are allowed to visit but not pray there to avoid provoking tensions.<\/p>\n

A wave of unrest that broke out in October 2015 has claimed the lives of at least 281 Palestinians or Arab Israelis, 44 Israelis, two Americans, two Jordanians, an Eritrean, a Sudanese and a Briton, according to an AFP toll.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities say most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks.<\/p>\n

Others were shot dead in protests and clashes, while some were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

The violence had greatly subsided in recent months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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