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Thursday 04 Feb 2016 - 19:48 Makkah mean time-25-4-1437
Jerusalem, (IINA) - Jewish Israeli settlers resumed their provocative tours inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday, provoking further tension with Palestinian worshipers, who chanted religious slogans to protest their entry, WAFA reported.
Around 130 settlers, accompanied by armed Israeli policemen and intelligence officers, broke into the Islamic site and performed rituals there, whilst at the same time, dozens of Muslim worshipers were denied entry into the site by the police who set up checkpoints at the gates leading to the compound.
Worshippers chanted religious slogans to protest against the illegal Jewish entry into the site, the third-holiest place in Islam.
Since early October 2015, tension has been running high throughout the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza, against the backdrop of Israel’s repeated assaults on the mosque, including its unilateral enforcement of a temporal division between Muslims and Jews.
Prior to the unrest in October, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor pointed out in a report that Israeli incitement and violations against Arabs in Jerusalem have increased dramatically in 2015.
The report, titled “Fire under the Ashes: Provoking Muslims in Jerusalem”, warned that Israeli incitement against Muslims could trigger a conflict that would likely result in disastrous consequences.
“Among the provocative acts documented by Euro-Med researchers against Palestinians in Jerusalem were the performance of Talmudic prayers near Muslim worshippers, beating, throwing rubbish, cursing, death threats and preventing worshippers from reaching the mosque”, the report said.
Since the beginning of unrest in early October 2015, Israel has at least killed 165 Palestinians and injured over 16,000 others.
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