Hundreds of people were arrested when violence erupted at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, among the holiest sites in both Islam and Judaism.
. The Israeli military said one soldier was shot in a separate incident in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli police said they moved in after"several law-breaking youths and masked agitators" brought fireworks, sticks and stones and barricaded themselves in the mosque. Police said the youths chanted violent slogans and locked the front doors. "The youths were afraid and started closing the doors," he said, adding that police forces"stormed the eastern corner, beating and arresting men there."
late last year. The government is dominated by religious and ultranationalist hard-liners, and the overlap of the Jewish and Muslim holidays – when tens of thousands of worshippers make their way to contested Jerusalem — has raised fears of violence. In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian leadership condemned the attack on the worshippers. The spokesman of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned Israel that such a move"exceeds all red lines and will lead to a large explosion."
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