After the clashes that made 150 wounded Friday, young Palestinians transformed Sunday for a few hours the Al-Aqsa mosque in an entrenched camp.
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They hold the Al-Aqsa mosque as a strong. Barricades inside the building, in this third holy place of Islam, a small group of Palestinians fires firecrackers at regular intervals, Sunday, April 17 in the morning, against the Israeli police, which encircles them. These projectiles produce small clouds of smoke, colorful sparks around police officers who want imperturbable. Some weapon their weapons towards broken windows, waiting for one of the besieged to pass the head. But they do not give the assault.
If the police thus unfolds on the esplanade of the mosques, it is to let the tourists and the Jewish faithful pass, visiting what is for them the mount of the temple, after the closing of the weekend Pascal . In recent years, these activists have broken the current “status quo”, which allows the Jews to visit Mount, but not to pray. Escorted and protected by the police, they pray every day in normal times, and study at length near the golden door. It is a challenge to the main Jewish religious authorities, who prohibit their highly flammable devotions.
Sunday at dawn, the police asserts that the Palestinian besieged attempted to block the passage of these visitors at the door of the Maghreb, on which leads to a branch wood bridge that spans the wall of the lamentations, vestige of the second temple. . To allow their coming, she repelled, sometimes violently, the Muslim faithful on the esplanade. She also forbade a time to those who were in the old town to penetrate the holy places, through two main doors. She finally cut the loudspeakers of the mosque, after the besieged ones made a call to the faithful to join them, then a prayer.
The Israeli authorities, however, hoped for a return to the “normal” on Sunday, after the violent repression that the police led here on Friday. Before the Jewish Passover, which coincides for the first time since 1991 with the sacred Muslim month of Ramadan, a call of Jewish extremists to sacrifice a paschal lamb on the esplanade had spread like a trail of powder in the Palestinian territories Occupied since 1967. This usual provocation, did not have the slightest chance of succeeding.
But she resonated while the army unfolds massively in the West Bank, responding to a wave of attacks that have died in Israeli cities since March 22. At least fifteen Palestinians were killed in the West Bank during these raids. The army leads arrests and punitive expeditions against the relatives of the attackers. It takes a stand on the roads, near the colonies and along the wall that encloses the territories.
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