Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque sees Israeli-Palestinian clashes

Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque sees Israeli-Palestinian clashes, Israeli badge clashed with Palestinian youths afterwards entering the al-Aqsa abbey circuitous in East Jerusalem.

Police say they entered the website "to anticipate riots". They were appear to accept acclimated breach gas and amaze grenades, and were attacked with rocks and fireworks.

Similar clashes took abode at the end of July.

Al-Aqsa is one of Islam's holiest sites and is in the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif website aswell admired by Jews.

The angelic admixture is a antecedent of religious and political astriction amid Israel and the Palestinians. It is a common flashpoint for violence.

The clashes appear hours afore the alpha of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.

Police were quoted in the Israeli media as adage the Palestinian youths who had barricaded themselves into the abbey were planning disruption to anticipate Jews visiting the site.

Security armament launched a abruptness arrest at about 06:45 (03:45 GMT) in the achievement of aperture the website as planned, Haaretz bi-weekly reports.

The badge said in a account that masked youths aural the abbey "threw stones and fireworks" and that aqueduct bombs had been found.

They denied letters from some assemblage that they had entered the abbey itself, adage that they had bound the doors to accumulate the youths inside.

An Israeli badge agent said there had been no injuries, but according to some Palestinian assemblage several humans were wounded.

There were letters of added clashes alfresco the compound, in Jerusalem's Old City, and Israeli badge are now said to be patrolling its attenuated alleyways.

One Palestinian woman, Khadijeh Khweis, told the AFP account bureau that they had been prevented from entering al-Aqsa mosque.

"They were block us with (stun) grenades and it's been like that back the morning," she said.

"We could alone adjure in foreground of the doors (leading to the complex)Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accursed what he alleged an "attack by the occupier's aggressive and badge adjoin the al-Aqsa abbey and the assailment adjoin the affectionate who were there".

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the website was now accessible to Jews absent to appointment for Rosh Hashanah, which begins at dusk on Sunday and continues until Tuesday evening.

And he warned that he was reconsidering what he alleged "the accepted arrangements" of the site, adage it was "unthinkable" that Palestinians could accomplish the breadth "their stronghold".

Tensions accept been active top in the city-limits back Israel Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon endure anniversary banned two Muslim groups which accost Jewish visitors to the compound.

Mr Yaalon said the groups were the capital sources of astriction and abandon at the website and said banning them was all-important to accessible order.
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