Arresting two young men after an incident of stabbing a settler and restrictions of the entrance of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Israeli police imposed restrictions on the entrance of young Muslim worshippers to Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday night. Witnesses said that the police suddenly established iron barricades at Al-Aqsa Gates concurrently with the time of the Night Prayer. They checked the IDs of young men and detained some of them while some young men were forced to pray at Al-Aqsa Gates due to some restrictions imposed by the Israeli police. Groups of women performed the Noon Prayer on Sunday near Al-Majles Gate after the police conditioned them to leave their IDs at the gates before they enter Al-Aqsa. The women explained that the Israeli police prevented them from entering Al-Aqsa on Sunday morning and continued preventing them until 10:30 a.m. The police then conditioned the women to leave their IDs at the gates if they intend to go inside the Mosque but the women refused the unjust condition and decided to perform the Prayer at Al-Majles Gate. On the other hand, the Israeli forces raided on Sunday night several commercial stores in the area of Al-Musrara looking for surveillance cameras after one settler was stabbed in the area. The forces arrested two Jerusalemites young men from the streets of the city and the forces were heavily deployed in the areas of Al-Musrara, Damascus Gate, Sultan Suleiman Street, Herod’s Gate, Nablus Street, and Salah Eddin Street and at the bus stops immediately after the stabbing incident. Witnesses explained that the forces detained several young men and checked their IDs and randomly stopped buses looking for young men. The forces tightened their procedure in the Old City of Jerusalem and at its gates and prevented citizens from entering or leaving through Herod’s Gate for several minutes and then allowed them on condition of checking their IDs.
