JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) to disperse Palestinians protesting against a plan to annex the holy site.
Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinian protesters on Tuesday in the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, ahead of a parliamentary debate over sovereignty of the holy site
Israel police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said the forces had used “means of dispersion” against the protesters, AFP reported on Tuesday.
The Israeli police spokesman added that there was “high tension” ahead of discussions in Knesset (the Israeli parliament) later Tuesday of a plan to annex the site.
Israel’s Knesset was preparing to debate a bill calling for Israel to annex the compound, Islam’s third-holiest site and Judaism’s holiest, which has been administered by Jordan for 20 years under a 1994 peace treaty.
The Palestinian Authority and the resistance movement of Hamas have warned against Israeli plans to impose their “sovereignty” on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Al-Aqsa compound is Islam’s third-holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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