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2014-11-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Clashes Erupt In East Jerusalem, West Bank After Friday Prayers, Hamas March
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 [Ynet] Temple Mount opened amid heavy Israeli security presence, as police brace for 'day of rage' in already tense Jerusalem.
Clashes broke out between young Paleostinians and Israeli security forces following Friday prayers, after the Temple Mount reopened with a heavy police presence and tight age restrictions.
At the Qalandia crossing between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem, festivities erupted following a march organized by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. According to Paleostinian reports, several youths were maimed as riot police used tear gas to disperse dozens of rock-throwing Paleostinians.
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The turban Hamas organization has been ruling the Gazoo Strip since a bloody coup in 2007, but its ongoing rivalry with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
' Fatah movement and crackdowns by Israeli security forces have kept its West Bank presence on a smaller scale.
During prayers, young Arabs rioted and set off fireworks on Old City rooftops close to the entrance to the Temple Mount, but no out-of-control festivities were reported. A group of Paleostinian youths had tried unsuccessfully to break through a police cordon blocking entrance to the Mount in the same area earlier Friday.
Fighting was also reported Friday in the Jabel Mukaber area of East Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Hebron.
In the Abu Tor neighborhood, home to the suspected gunman who shot Yehuda Glick on Wednesday night and who was himself killed in a shoot out Thursday morning with police, masked rioters blocked the road and threw fireworks at cars. Stones were also thrown at a car near the Naomi Shemer tunnel at Mount Scopus. No injuries or damage were reported.
Israel opened the Temple Mount site for Moslem prayers amid tight security Friday morning, bracing for violent riots after festivities the previous day between Paleostinians and Israeli riot police ratcheted up already heightened tensions in the city.
Some 1,000 security forces were deployed to the site, open to Moslem men over the age of 50 and women of any age.
Small groups of Paleostinian worshippers made their way through a welter of Israeli checkpoints to the site -- known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Moslems as the Noble Sanctuary -- under leaden gray skies and pouring rain.
The age limits were implemented after some Paleostinians called for a "day of rage" and intelligence information indicated that young Arab men were planning to riot there after prayers were over.
The decision to reopen the flashpoint compound was taken after a massive wave of criticism from the Arab world, with Paleostinian President Abbas calling it a "declaration of war" and Jordan decrying the move as terror.
The site was closed to all visitors on Thursday, as tensions spiraled in the wake of the attempted liquidation of rightwing activist Glick in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and the subsequent killing of his suspected attacker in East Jerusalem early Thursday morning.
Temple lockdown
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP the shrine would open early Friday "for dawn prayers, after midnight" following its first closure in decades. Israel said its clampdown on the shrine was a temporary measure aimed at calming tempers.
Officials from the Islamic Waqf which administers the compound said it was the first closure since Israel seized Arab East Jerusalem during the 1967 War.
A temporary closure was ordered in September 2000, when a provocative visit by then-Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon touched off a Paleostinian uprising.
"This dangerous Israeli escalation is a declaration of war on the Paleostinian people and its sacred places and on the Arab and Islamic nation," Abbas said through his front man Nabil Abu Rudeina, warning it would only fuel "more tension and instability."
Jordan's Islamic affairs minister, Hayel Daoud, said it amounted to a case of Israeli "state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
." Under its 1994 peace treaty with Israel, Jordan has responsibility for Moslem holy sites in Jerusalem.
The US urged that the Al-Aqsa Mosque be reopened to Moslem worshippers, and called on all sides to exercise restraint amid spiraling tensions. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State...
also condemned the shooting of Glick..
A front man for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the closure aimed "to prevent riots and escalation as well as to restore calm and status quo to the Holy Places." 
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