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Jewish visitors will be barred from the Temple Mount from Wednesday until the end of Ramadan in ten days’ time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Tuesday, after a series of security consultations on the issue amid widespread violence linked to tensions at the holy site.
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Clashes were reported inside Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after Israeli troops stormed the holy site in a pre-dawn operation on Wednesday, reported Reuters. Videos on social media purportedly showed Israeli police officers beating Palestinians with batons and rifle butts at the mosque in the contested hilltop site revered by both Muslims and Jews.
Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police wounded ten protesters on Sunday morning in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the site of major clashes two days earlier.
In a first, the NIA has booked a case against Indians for joining a terrorist outfit, apart from the Islamic State in Syria. The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has registered a case against Indian youth in Qatar who allegedly joined the terrorist organisations Jund al-Aqsa and Jabhat al-Nusrah.
