{"id":1443439,"date":"2022-04-18T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443439"},"modified":"2022-04-18T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:00:56","slug":"pm-bennett-israeli-forces-have-free-hand-to-quash-temple-mount-rioting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pm-bennett-israeli-forces-have-free-hand-to-quash-temple-mount-rioting\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Bennett: Israeli Forces Have &#039;Free Hand&#039; to Quash Temple Mount Rioting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpm-bennett-israeli-forces-have-free-hand-to-quash-temple-mount-rioting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli security forces erupted again on Sunday morning in the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, as Palestinians tried to stop Jewish worshipers from entering the holy site.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Israeli security forces had \u201cfree rein\u201d to take any measure necessary to ensure security for the citizens of Israel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to calm things down on the one hand and are taking vigorous action against violent individuals on the other. The security forces are ready for any scenario,\u201d he said at a situational assessment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\ud83d\udcf9 \u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u0639\u062a\u062f\u064a \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0636\u0631\u0628 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0627\u0628\u0637\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u062f\u0633\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062c\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0642\u0635\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0643 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IhWOFCUjTQ\">pic.twitter.com\/IhWOFCUjTQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0648\u0643\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0635\u0641\u0627 (@SafaPs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SafaPs\/status\/1515591952791928839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A total of 728 Jews visited the Temple Mount on Sunday morning, the first intermediary day of the Passover festival, according to the Temple Mount Administration.\u00a0The flashpoint site, which is Judaism\u2019s holiest as the site of the biblical Temples and the third holiest in Islam, is administered by the Jordanian Islamic Waqf. According to the Waqf\u2019s current policy,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Jews<\/span>\u00a0are allowed to visit the site but are barred from uttering prayers \u2014 even under their breath or disguised as a sermon \u2014 prostrating, or performing any other religious rituals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hundreds of masked Palestinian rioters gathered rocks and iron bars to stop Jews from entering. Video footage showed Palestinians hitting Jewish worshipers in the head on their way to pray. Palestinians are heard chanting slogans in support of Hamas as well as chants of\u00a0\u201cwith our souls and blood, we will redeem you, O Aqsa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rioters also threw stones at public buses, smashing windows and wounding passengers. Police arrested nine rioters.<\/p>\n<p>The Jordanian Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/bennett-says-israeli-forces-have-free-rein-to-maintain-security\/\">said<\/a> in a statement on Sunday that \u201cIsrael\u2019s measures to change the status quo on the Mount are a dangerous escalation. Israel bears full responsibility for the consequences of the current escalation that is thwarting efforts invested to bring about calm.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20683208\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239997560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20683208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239997560-1024x642-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"621\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Supporters of the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad group rally after Friday prayers in Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza Strip, to express support for the Al-Aqsa Mosque on April 15, 2022. (SAID KHATIB\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20683226\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239997926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20683226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239997926-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Supporters of the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad group rally after Friday prayers in Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza Strip to express support for the Al-Aqsa Mosque on April 15, 2022. More than 100 people were wounded in violence which came after three tense weeks of deadly violence in Israel and the West Bank as the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter overlap with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (SAID KHATIB\/AFP via Getty )<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Israel Police has no right to organize visits by non-Muslims there. Only the Muslim Waqf does,\u201d the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the U.S. to intervene.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe [Biden] administration must break its silence in the face of this aggression that threatens to burn the region,\u201d a statement from his office read. \u201cThe international community must intervene immediately to provide protection for the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbas also\u00a0called on Palestinians to flock to al-Aqsa Mosque in order to \u201cdefend it.\u201d He added that any escalation that occurred would be Israel\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Times of Israel<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/just-look-at-their-feet-the-defenders-of-al-aqsa-were-desecrating-it\/\">notes<\/a>, the rock-throwing \u201cdefenders\u201d who clashed with Israeli security forces in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque had their shoes on, violating Islam\u2019s requirement of removing shoes upon entering a mosque.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20683214\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240049528.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20683214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240049528-1024x718-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"694\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group exits a tunnel in the Gaza strip, on April 17, 2022, during a media tour amid escalating violence with Israel. (MAHMUD HAMS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Hayat said that \u201cinstead of calming the situation, the Palestinian\u00a0Foreign\u00a0Ministry has chosen to join extremist elements in the distribution of fake news, with the aim of escalating violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayat said that \u201cIsrael maintains freedom of religion and worship in Jerusalem, in the holy places of the three religions that celebrate their holidays during this period,\u201d and said that \u201cany attempt to present another false picture further aids Palestinian terrorist organizations and criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese same organizations defile the spirit of Islam with their behavior,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli security forces erupted again on Sunday morning in the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, as Palestinians tried to stop Jewish worshipers from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}