Israel reopens holy site with huge security
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ISRAEL reopened a contested Jerusalem holy site yesterday and deployed more than 1,000 security personnel following clashes the previous day between Palestinians and Israeli riot police that had ratcheted up already heightened tensions in the city.
Small groups of Palestinian worshippers made their way through a series of Israeli checkpoints to the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, under leaden gray skies and pouring rain.
No clashes were reported after prayer services ended around mid-day, though Israeli security personnel fired several volleys of tear gas canisters at dozens of rock-throwing Palestinian youths gathered at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli authorities said they were limiting access to the site to Muslim men over 50 in an attempt to dampen the prospects for violence triggered by Thursday’s killing of a Palestinian man suspected of attempting to assassinate a hardline Jewish activist.
Israeli-American rabbi Yehuda Glick was shot three times late on Wednesday but his condition was now said to be improving. Glick has campaigned for more Jewish access to the site.
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