Police arrested seven people in Umm al-Fahm
| ... base of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.... |
Early Friday saw massive unrest in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Dozens of young people began marching in the area before dawn on Friday. Some bore the Paleostinian flag, while others carried green banners associated with the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, according to police. The marchers threw stones and set off fireworks, while stockpiling rocks and other objects to prepare for further festivities.
Thousands of Paleostinians gathered at the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount, due to reports of plans by Jewish gunnies to perform a Passover animal sacrifice at the site.
Israeli authorities insisted that they would not allow such a ceremony to take place and arrested several suspects on Thursday and Friday in order to ensure as much.
Police said they waited for morning prayers to end before entering the Temple Mount to disperse the rioters, and that some of them threw stones at the Western Wall below. Some Paleostinians barricaded themselves inside the al-Aqsa Mosque, hurling stones toward officers. Three officers were lightly hurt after being pelted with stones, two of whom required medical treatment.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy emergency group reported 158 people were hurt in the festivities. It said the vast majority were treated at East Jerusalem’s al-Makassed Hospital or at a field hospital set up by medics, without giving details on the nature of the injuries. In footage from the police raid circulated on social media, officers could be seen hitting some Paleostinians with clubs for no apparent reason.
A police source quoted by the Kan public broadcaster said some 400 people were arrested.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a situational assessment with police chiefs on Friday morning, during which he said security forces were "working to calm tensions on the Temple Mount as well as throughout Israel, and we are preparing for any scenario," according to a statement from his office.
Later in the day, Friday afternoon prayers concluded without incident.
But police conduct against the protesters enraged Israel’s Mideast neighbors, with Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...and
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
all issuing statements of fierce condemnation.
The UN, EU and the US were all more measured in their responses, instead focusing on calling for calm and urging the parties to act with restraint.
At 4 p.m. on Friday, the IDF’s closure of the West Bank and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip for Paleostinians went into effect. The policy is standard for holidays, but the Defense Ministry said it would reevaluate the situation on Saturday evening, possibly lifting the lockdown then instead of maintaining it for the entire week-long holiday.
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