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Police arrested more than 30 Moslem worshipers in the compound of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosques on Temple Mount, which is sacred to both Moslems and Jews. The hill is known in Arabic as Harim es-Sharif, or Noble Enclosure...
About 10,000 worshippers attended prayers on the Moslem Sabbath at Al Aqsa and the adjacent Dome of the Rock, the site from which the prophet Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven on his horse...
...Friday, the time shortly after noon. Prayer services had just ended at the al-Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, one of the holiest sites for both Islam and Judaism. As several hundred young men streamed out of the mosque, the shouts began. "There is no God but Allah!" "Allah is great!" The banned red-black-and-green Palestinian flag was raised, and Israeli and American banners burned. A thousand Israeli police, stationed there in case trouble broke out, began firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. But they were driven back by a shower of rocks and broken...
...that enshrouded the golden Dome of the Rock, the ciborium that stands on the site from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven on a white horse. At one point, after a police officer was beaten, his comrades chased a group of demonstrators into al-Aqsa mosque itself, normally off limits to any military personnel. The fearsome scene seemed to encapsulate all the hatred of the Arab-Israeli conflict: Muslim and Jew literally battling for control of the most revered territory in the Holy Land...
...pattern took on a new dimension in January, when Muslim guards scared away intruders from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, site of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque, two of the Islamic world's most hallowed shrines. Explosives were discovered near by. Following a two-month investigation by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security force, three men were arrested. They turned out to belong to a fanatical Jewish group, with headquarters in the Lifta Valley near Jerusalem, that believes the mosques on the Temple Mount must be razed and the Second Temple, which was destroyed...