{"id":7756,"date":"2014-02-08T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2014-02-08T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T12:24:32","slug":"israel-troops-attack-al-aqsa-mosque-clashes-ensue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/israel-troops-attack-al-aqsa-mosque-clashes-ensue\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel troops attack al-Aqsa Mosque, clashes ensue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>Clashes have erupted between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli soldiers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the West Bank city of East al-Quds (Jerusalem).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The clashes broke out when Israeli forces stormed the holy site in East al-Quds during this week&#8217;s Friday prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at the people who were praying at the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>At least 20 people, including children, were wounded in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces also beat a number of women and arrested several Palestinians &#8212; being mostly youths.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes came less than a month after Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel said Tel Aviv plans to replace the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in the Muslim world, with a temple.<\/p>\n<p>The remark infuriated Palestinians, who condemned the plan as desecration and part of the Israeli regime\u2019s ongoing attempts to Judaize the al-Aqsa Mosque and East al-Quds.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decades, Israel has tried to change demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites, and expelling the local Palestinian population.<\/p>\n<p>Over half a million Israelis live in more than 120 settlements built since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East al-Quds, during the Six War of 1967.<\/p>\n<p>The international community considers the settlements as illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes have erupted between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli soldiers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the West Bank city of East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The clashes broke out when Israeli forces stormed the holy site in East al-Quds during this week&#8217;s Friday prayers. Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at the people who were praying &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7758,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/7758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}