MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS/ISRAEL-CLASHES Israeli forces clash with Palestinian near suspects home in east Jerusalem

Record ID: 398730

  • Title: MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS/ISRAEL-CLASHES Israeli forces clash with Palestinian near suspects home in east Jerusalem
  • Date: 30th October 2014
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 30, 2014) (REUTERS) STREET IN ABU TOR NEIGHBOURHOOD ISRAELI POLICEMEN ON ROOF OF HOUSE / POLICEMAN FIRING STUN GRENADES WHITE SMOKE BILLOWING POLICE ON ROOF STONES IN STREET POLICEMAN WITH STUN GRENADE LAUNCHER VARIOUS OF STREET WITH CARS PALESTINIAN CHILDREN LOOKING DOWN STREET TOWARDS BARRICADE VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS HURLING STONES SOLDIER FIRING STUN
  • Embargoed: 14th November 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA87U986RV8QZX08URETGFEW7F8
  • Story Text: Clashes erupted in east Jerusalem on Thursday (October 30) after Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian who fired at them resisting arrest following the attempted assassination of a far-right Israeli activist, police said.
    Yehuda Glick was shot and severely wounded in Jerusalem on Wednesday (October 29) as he left a conference promoting a Jewish campaign to permit praying at a compound in the Old City that that has become a flashpoint as both Jews and Muslims regard it as a holy site, Israeli officials said.
    There was a heavy police deployment in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, adjacent to the Old City, and a helicopter circled overhead.
    Police took the rare step of shutting the compound to all worshippers and visitors until further notice, after far-right Israeli activists urged adherents to go to the site en masse in response to the shooting.
    The site known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary is an elevated marble and stone compound. It is the third-most sacred site in Islam and the holiest in Judaism, where two ancient Jewish temples once stood.
    It contains the 8th century al-Aqsa mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock, where the Prophet Mohammad is said to have ascended to heaven.
    Tension has risen steadily in east Jerusalem since just before a Gaza war that ended in August, with almost nightly clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters throwing rocks and petrol bombs.
    A major focus of Palestinian anger in the past few weeks has been Jewish settlers moving into largely Arab neighbourhoods and increasing numbers of visits by Orthodox Jews, including some politicians, accompanied by Israeli police to the sacred compound in the Old City.
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