Skip to footer

Israeli police raid Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims

Israeli police clashed with young Palestinian protesters demonstrating against Jews visiting the Al Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount, which the third holiest site for Muslims and the holiest site for Jews.

|
Mahmoud Illean/AP
A Palestinian woman protects herself from tear gas during clashes in the Old City, in Jerusalem, Monday Oct. 13, 2014. Israeli police clashed with young Palestinian protesters on Monday at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
  • By Associated Press

| Jerusalem

Israeli police say they have raided a Jerusalem holy site to thwart an attack by Palestinian rioters.

Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says police got a tip about a planned violent demonstration and entered the Temple Mount Monday. Troops found firebombs and rocks at the scene and chased the demonstrators toward the Al-Aqsa mosque, where they barricaded themselves inside.

No one was injured in the brief clash.

The hilltop compound is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, where the two biblical Jewish Temples stood. It is sacred to Muslims, who refer to it as the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, marking the place where they believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.

The site is the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, and a frequent flashpoint for demonstrations.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Israeli police raid Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2014/1013/Israeli-police-raid-Jerusalem-s-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-a-site-sacred-to-Jews-and-Muslims
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe