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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ay-prayers

Two Israeli cops have been shot dead and three gunmen killed during an early-morning shootout in one of Jerusalem’s most holy and sensitive sites.

The attack – involving three Israeli citizens of Palestinian origin – took place just after 7am in the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif complex in Jerusalem beginning near the Lion’s Gate entrance to the compound which is revered as a holy site by both Muslims and Jews.

Confirmation of the death of the two male police officers who were wounded in the attack came a few hours after the incident from police chief Roni Alsheich.

The incident was among the most serious in Jerusalem in recent years and threatened to raise Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

According to police, the three men – residents of the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm who were armed with home-made machine guns and a pistol – opened fire on police near the gate before fleeing back into the heart of the compound which houses the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.

Israel’s Shin Bet security service later named the three attackers as Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Jabareen, aged 29, Mohammed Hamed Abd Al-Latif Jabareen, 19, and Mohammed Ahmed Mafdal Jabareen, also 19, noting that none had previous security convictions.

As Israeli police pursued the men, a heavy exchange of gunfire took place, startling early-morning worshippers in the central plaza, some of whom recorded the shootout on camera phones.

In the immediate aftermath the compound was cleared of visitors and closed, with police announcing that Muslim Friday prayers, usually attended by thousands, would be cancelled for the first time in 17 years.

The two dead police officers were later named as Hael Sathawi, 30, and Kamil Shnan, 22.

The attack was condemned by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in a rare phone call to the Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

Video footage recorded during the attack showed shooting and police running across the central plaza in pursuit of the attackers.

At one point, one of the gunmen, who is seen lying on the ground apparently motionless, is seen jumping up, amid a fresh exchange of fire in which he falls.

A police spokesman described the beginning of the incident.

“When they saw policemen they shot towards them and then escaped towards one of the mosques in the Temple Mount compound,” said Luba Samri. “A chase ensued and the three terrorists were killed by police.”

The al-Aqsa mosque is Islam’s third-holiest site, while the seventh-century Dome of the Rock is also revered by Jews as the site of the historic Temple. Jews are permitted to visit the site but not pray there, a prohibition supported by the mainstream Jewish Halakhic tradition. It is managed under a longstanding arrangement with the Jordanian-supported Islamic institution known as the Waqf.

The last time the complex was closed off to Muslims was after the 2014 shooting of Jewish prayer rights activist Yehudah Glick, now a Knesset member for the Likud, while the last time Friday prayers were cancelled was in 1990.

Netanyahu said in the aftermath of the attack that he would not change prayer rights at the site, despite calls by far-right politicians who sought to exploit the shooting.
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Zionist Nationalist wrote:the terrorists came from the village of um al fahem.
I think in any future deal this village should be part of the Palestinian state why we need this kind of human filth in our country?


They don't want to be part of future Palestine because all the benefits of the welfare state.
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Such terrorist attacks give the Israeli Government all the excuse they need to continue their present policies and build some more settlements and a couple thousand housing units in expanded Israel.
Hamas praising the terrorist attack exposes it for what they really are. Let's say that this is not going to help the people in Gaza.
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Ter wrote:Such terrorist attacks give the Israeli Government all the excuse they need to continue their present policies and build some more settlements and a couple thousand housing units in expanded Israel.
Hamas praising the terrorist attack exposes it for what they really are. Let's say that this is not going to help the people in Gaza.


It was the same with the wicked Resistance to Hitler. That is why he is still in power!
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Zionist Nationalist wrote:the terrorists came from the village of um al fahem.
I think in any future deal this village should be part of the Palestinian state why we need this kind of human filth in our country?

So by your logic, everyone in that village is criminal filth? Should the same logic be applied to the Jewish communities from which people such as Yosef Chaim Ben David originated? Are they all human filth too? Or are you just a hypocrite and reserve your scorn for Arabs?
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Tailz wrote:So by your logic, everyone in that village is criminal filth? Should the same logic be applied to the Jewish communities from which people such as Yosef Chaim Ben David originated? Are they all human filth too? Or are you just a hypocrite and reserve your scorn for Arabs?



This is a hostile town not only because of this recent terror attack but because its not the first time terrorists come from there and they always express support to the other side so why not move the fence and let them join their brothers?
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Zionist Nationalist wrote:This is a hostile town not only because of this recent terror attack but because its not the first time terrorists come from there and they always express support to the other side so why not move the fence and let them join their brothers?

Ah, so you are on the same page as Avigdor Lieberman who wants to hand over the city as part of a population exchange in order to hold onto Jewish Settlements (a plan rejected by Israeli Arab politicians as ethnic cleansing).
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Tailz wrote:Ah, so you are on the same page as Avigdor Lieberman who wants to hand over the city as part of a population exchange in order to hold onto Jewish Settlements (a plan rejected by Israeli Arab politicians as ethnic cleansing).


I dont see whats the problem with just moving the fence and letting them be part of other country
its not like I said they all should be evicted from their homes. they stay right where they are just with a different citizenship
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Zionist Nationalist wrote:I dont see whats the problem with just moving the fence and letting them be part of other country
its not like I said they all should be evicted from their homes. they stay right where they are just with a different citizenship

Imagine if Trump said in a press conference "We are going to give New Orleans to Cuba, it's full of Black people who don't want to be a part of the Great White State of America." Or perhaps Trump would give San Diego to Mexico, it's full of Mexicans anyway so why not let them be a part of Mexico?

By your logic, none of these acts are being done out of racism, or on the basis of race.

The idea of de-annexing that city is being made on the basis that those people are not Jews, and thus are just not wanted in the Jewish state. The same reason some Palestinian groups don't want Jews in their Palestinian towns/cities.
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MememyselfandIJK wrote:@Tailz Black people aren't rebelling to get their own country. Palestinians are. Big difference.

So? It would be racist if they were or were not rebelling in ether case. Since the issue is based on their race regardless of whether they had a rebel alliance or not.
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