JEWS DENIED ACCESS TO FIFTH AVENUE SYNAGOGUE desertpeace | February 5, 2011 at 11:41 | Categories: Civil Liberties, Collective Punishment, Cover Up, DesertPeace Editorial, Human Rights, Israel, Sarcasm, Satire | URL: http://wp.me/pahWK-5xW |
"This Friday, we are forbidding access to the compound to men under 50 years old carrying an Israeli identity card," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Agence France-Presse.
The directive concerned Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem as well as Israeli citizens of Israel, he said.
All Palestinians from the occupied West Bank were barred, even if they had Israeli papers.
Only 6,000 faithful were able to participate in the prayers as a result of the measures, the Islamic Waqf endowment told AFP.
Rosenfeld said police had reinforced positions in the walled Old City, amid concerns violent demonstrations would be staged after Friday prayers in a show of solidarity with the popular uprising in Egypt.
But only sporadic incidents were reported in the neighborhood of Ras Al-Amoud, where young people threw stones at police who responded with tear gas, onlookers said.
The compound contains the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and is the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina.
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