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Israel removes more security installations outside Temple Mount
Israel late Wednesday removed relatively minor security installations, including fairly flimsy metal railings, from an entrance to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, a sensitive holy site that has been at the center of violence over the past two weeks in the wake of a terror attack in which two Israeli coppers were killed near the compound. The Moslem authorities who administer the site had demanded that the railings be removed, among other steps, in a list given to Israel Police earlier Wednesday. In response to the July 14 attack, in which three Arab Israelis killed the two officers near the Lions Gate with guns they had smuggled into the holy site, Israel installed security measures at the entrances, including metal detectors, which set off protests and deadly unrest in and around East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Early on Tuesday, Israel had removed the metal detectors. Late on Wednesday night, newly installed railings and scaffolding where cameras were previously mounted were also removed from the Lions Gate area near the entrance to the Mount. The removal of the railings and scaffolding late Wednesday prompted celebrations by Paleostinians, who danced, whistled and honked their horns near the site. Moslems have refused to enter the site and have prayed in the streets outside for more than a week after Israel installed the new security measures. It was not immediately clear whether Moslem authorities would now give their approval to re-enter the site. They had demanded that all security changes at access points to the compound be removed, and on Wednesday gave a list of such demands to Israel Police. The list included reopening five gates to the Temple Mount closed in the latest crisis, the removal of five new cameras installed in the Mount area, and the removal of the metal railings placed at the entrances. The Paleostinian Authority of the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has frozen ties with Israel over the episode, and Abbas on Wednesday approved mass demonstrations on a "day of rage" scheduled for Friday. The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group also called for protests on Friday. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-27 |
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