Watch: Muslims begin returning to Temple Mount - Yoni Kempinski

by Yoni Kempinski

Hundreds of Muslims pass through metal detectors to visit Temple Mount despite Waqf ban as long as security measures are in place.

Muslims began returning to the Temple Mount Wednesday, even as the Waqf continued to order worshipers away from the holy site in protest against the installation of metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount following the deadly terrorist attack at the holy site last Friday in which two Druze police officers were murdered.

Hundreds of Muslims passed through the upgraded security to visit the Temple Mount Wednesday.

The Temple Mount had been closed for two days following the deadly terrorist attack and was reopened on Sunday. However, Waqf officials have refused to ascend the Mount, claiming that new security measures put in place following the attack infringed on the religious rights of Muslim worshipers.

Muslim clerics and Palestinian Authority leaders have called for a “Day of Rage” against the new security measures, encouraging Arabs to demonstrate in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem.

With the Waqf temporarily absent, Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount took the opportunity to exercise their freedom of religion, but were escorted off the Mount by police and detained.

After the two separate incidents of Jewish prayer on the Mount, Jerusalem Police Commander Yoram Levy ordered the Temple Mount closed to Jewish visitors.

“Following an additional violation of the visitation rules for the Temple Mount by a group of Jewish visitors who ascended the Mount, Jerusalem District Commander Yoram Levy ordered the group removed from the area and Temple Mount closed to Jewish visitors,” a police spokesperson said.

Arab rioters attacked security forces and civilian cars in eastern Jerusalem Tuesday night and Monday morning, injuring two police officers and at least one Jewish civilian.


Yoni Kempinski

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232708

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