ISRAELI POLICEMEN ARREST FOUR WOMEN AT AQSA MOSQUE

Jerusalem, 21 Jumadal Awwal 1436/12 March (MINA) – Israeli policemen arrested Wednesday (11/3) noon four Jerusalemite women while going out of the Aqsa Mosque and assaulted one woman of the Aqsa guards.

Islamic Awqaf sources said the policemen arrested the four women at al-Silsilah Gate and took them all to a police station in the holy city, Palestinian Information Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The sources added that the policemen provocatively attacked and insulted one of the female guards of al-Aqsa Mosque. Many of the Aqsa guards rushed to the scene immediately and scuffles between Israeli policemen and Jerusalemite guards of the holy site began.

Islamic Awqaf officials intervened and stopped the brawl amid high tension that prevailed in the holy Mosque, the sources elaborated.

The same sources noted that the Israeli policemen almost daily target the Jerusalemite women by assaults, arrests and Aqsa Mosque entry bans.

The sources also told the PIC reporter that the guards of the Aqsa Mosque caught a Jewish man disguising in Arab clothes and performing Talmudic rituals inside the courtyards of the holy Aqsa Mosque. (T/P006/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)