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After its first closure in decades, Israel reopened Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ahead of Friday prayer, October 31, imposing restrictions on male Muslim worshippers under 50.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Israeli crimes are systematically increasing to target Jerusalem through killing, detentions, assaults, demolishing houses, and preventing worshipers from praying inside the compounds of the Al-Aqsa mosque,” the secretary-general of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, told Ma’an<\/span>
Israel reopened Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, a day after the closure of the holy site for the first time since 1967.<\/span>
The Israeli closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound followed incidents in which extremist Jewish rabbi Yehuda Glick was injured in a drive-by shooting in Al-Quds (Occupied Jerusalem) late Wednesday.<\/span>
Yehuda Glick is an American-born Israeli and the chairman of the Temple Mount Heritage Fund, an extremist Jewish organization focused on “strengthening the relationship between Israel and the Temple Mount.”<\/span>
Later on Thursday, Israeli police announced killing Moataz Hejazi, 32, a Palestinian who had spent 11 years in an Israeli jail and was released in 2012.<\/span>
“They took him upstairs and then they shot him” Hejazi’s cousin told BBC.<\/span>
Al-Aqsa is the Muslims\u2019 first Qiblah [direction Muslims take during prayers] and it is the third holiest shrine after Al Ka`bah in Makkah and Prophet Muhammad\u2019s Mosque in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.<\/span>
Its significance has been reinforced by the Islamic incident of Al Isra\u2019a and Al Mi\u2019raj \u2014 the night journey from Makkah to Al-Quds and the ascent to the Heavens by Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him).<\/span>
Jordan has been supervising Al-Aqsa Mosque and other endowments in Al-Quds since 1948.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebuke<\/strong><\/span>
Thursday’s closure of Al-Aqsa mosque was widely condemned by Arab and Western leaders.<\/span>
A spokesman for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas considered the full day closure of Al-Aqsa as a “declaration of war”.<\/span>
Calling for reopening Al-Aqda compound for Muslim worshipper, the US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: \u201cWe\u2019re extremely concerned by escalating tensions across Jerusalem and particularly surrounding the Haram al-Sharif, Temple Mount [Al-Aqsa Mosque].\u201d<\/span>
\u201cIt is actually critical that all sides exercise restraint, refrain from provocative actions and rhetoric and preserve the status quo on the Haram al-Sharif\/Temple Mount [Al-Aqsa mosque] in word and in practice,\u201d Psaki added.<\/span>
Meanwhile, the Fatah movement in the occupied Jerusalem called for a day of range on Friday over the killing of Hijazi by the Israeli police, whose funeral was held amid heavy security presence on Thursday, October 30.<\/span>
Deeming it an “act of terrorism”, Fatah leaders said that Hijazi was denied the right of defense, shot without a proof after being accused of killing the extremist Jewish rabbi Glick.<\/span>
Israel occupied the holy city of Al-Quds, the West Bank and Golan Heights in the 1967 war and later annexed them in a move not recognized by the international community or UN resolutions.<\/span>
Since then, Israel has adopted a series of oppressive measures to force the Palestinians out of Al-Quds, including systematic demolition of their homes and building settlements.<\/span>
Sweden officially recognized the state of Palestine on Thursday, the first EU country in Western Europe to do so, reflecting growing international exasperation over the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: OnIslam<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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