JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: RIGHT-WING JEWISH GROUP PROTEST AFTER POLICE BAR THEM FROM PRAYING AT TEMPLE MOUNT

Record ID: 433379

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: RIGHT-WING JEWISH GROUP PROTEST AFTER POLICE BAR THEM FROM PRAYING AT TEMPLE MOUNT
  • Date: 20th April 1992
  • Summary: JERUSALEM AND SILWAN, WEST BANK (APRIL 20, 1992) JERUSALEM 1. GV/SVS: DEMONSTRATORS SINGING AND MARCHING WITH ISRAELI FLAGS AS SECURITY MEN LOOK ON (4 SHOTS) 0.18 2. SV PULL BACK TO GV: MAN SHOUTING ANTI-ARAB SLOGANS INTO LOUDSPEAKER 0.25 SILWAN 3. GV: DEMONSTRATORS IN VILLAGE. 0.29 JERUSALEM 4. SV PANS/CU/SVS: ACTIVISTS HOLDING ISRAELI FLAGS IN MOSLEM QUARTER SHOUTING ANTI-ARAB SLOGANS/POLICE (6 SHOTS) 0.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 5th May 1992 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/SILWAN, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA4LRZ0FDB0WNXMEGZTQLSFNR06
  • Story Text: A right-wing Jewish group staged protests in Jerusalem's Old City on Monday (April 20) after police barred them from going onto the Temple Mount to say Passover prayers.

    The 'Temple Mount Faithful' group wanted to pray on the mount to underline its demand that a Jewish temple be built there to replace the one destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.

    The demonstrators proceeded from Temple Mount to the Arab village of Silwan, just outside the city, and to the Moslem quarter of Jerusalem's old city, shouting anti-Arab slogans.

    Temple Mount, known in Arabic as the Haram es-Sharif, is the third holiest site in Islam with its Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques.

    The group's plans to lay a cornerstone on the mount set off rioting in October 1990. Seventeen Palestinians were killed and more than 150 wounded in police gunfire.

    The latest demonstration occurred as thousands of Jews held special prayers at the Western Wall to mark the Passover holiday, which commemorates the flight of the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt.


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