JERUSALEM, January 1, 2015 (WAFA) - The Israeli police Thursday
detained 5 women who were praying at al-Aqsa Mosque, for attempting to stop yet
another provocative tour carried out by extreme religious Israelis, said WAFA
correspondent.
The women are reportedly from different areas in East Jerusalem; such as Jabal al-Mukabir, Shufat refugee camp and Sour Baher. One of whom is 16 while the other two are 19-year-old.
WAFA correspondent reported that all of the detained
women were led to Qashla detention center in Bab el-Khalil gate in the old city
of Jerusalem.
Israeli
police spokeswoman Luba Samri justified the detention saying they were chanting
religious slogans at the Israelis who were in the Mosque’s yards and tried to
end the visit.”
She
said in a press release sent out to news agencies that the five women are
undergoing interrogation at the moment.
The detention of the five women came amid a provocative tour
during which extreme Israeli soldiers broke into al-Aqsa Mosque from
al-Maghariba gate under heavy Israeli protection.
The provocative tours are usually called for by a number of
extreme religious Jewish groups such as Students for the Temple, Women for the
Temple, Hliba, and Union Temple. The groups perform Talmudic prayers and
rituals and usually insult worshipers and provoke them.
Tensions in Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound have been on the rise as
Israeli religious settlers continue their provocative tours, which inflame
Palestinian worshipers, especially following the deadly incidents which
occurred over the course of the last few months in Jerusalem and its
neighborhoods and the ongoing violations committed by Israeli settlers in the
West Bank.
M.H
