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| Tens of thousands gather at Al-Aqsa as Sunni Muslims celebrate Eid holiday |
| 2023-04-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Festival marking end of Ramadan starts for many in Israel and PA on Friday, while Shiites wait another day; Waqf says 4 million worshippers visited mosque compound over holy month. Arab Israelis and Paleostinians joined large parts of the Moslem world in celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with tens of thousands gathering for prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Some 50,000 participated in pre-dawn prayers and hundreds of thousands were expected by Friday afternoon, though no figures were released by Israeli authorities. For Paleostinian Moslems, worship at the al-Aqsa Mosque — the third-holiest site in Islam — is a central part of the festival. Israeli authorities said prayers Friday morning were largely peaceful. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... there was "still a handful of rioters who arrived to disturb and harm their fellow worshipers, to desecrate a holy place and to incite terrorism," the Foreign Ministry and police said in identical statements published with videos showing several masked youths trying to hang Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, banners from the walls, while others used ropes to scale the walls and avoid security checks. Police said that officers entered the site briefly during prayers in order to remove a banner containing a slogan inciting violence that was hung from an arch on the compound. In the past, police waited until prayers concluded in order to remove such banners but National Security Minister reportedly scolded law enforcement for that approach earlier in the week. Channel 12 reported that a small clash also broke out broke out at the holy site between supporters of the rival Hamas and Fatah Paleostinian movements, with screeching muppets from the latter group seeking to avenge for an incident that took place earlier in the week during which a young man waving a Fatah flag at the Temple Mount had stones and other objects thrown on him. The incident was capture on someone’s cellphone and subsequently went viral on social media. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... the Waqf, the Jordanian-backed Islamic trust that administers the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount announced Friday that some four million people had prayed at the site during the month of Ramadan. The large numbers come despite accusations that Israel was restricting worship at the site and a series of festivities that sparked a surge in regional violence. Related: Aqsa Mosque: 2023-04-15 Few disturbances as Muslims mass on Temple Mount for final Friday of tense Ramadan Aqsa Mosque: 2023-04-14 Iron Dome on alert in the north ahead of final Friday of Ramadan, Iran’s Quds Day Aqsa Mosque: 2023-04-14 Police brace for last Friday of Ramadan as Palestinians gather at Al-Aqsa Mosque |
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| #1 with screeching muppets from the latter group seeking to avenge for an incident that took place |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-22 07:40 |