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WORLD NEWSWednesday 16 September
Clashes at Jerusalem holy site for third straight day
IAN DEITCH Palestinians chant slogans in solidarity with protesters at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Je- of firebombs from within
Associated Press rusalem’s Old City, during a demonstration in the West Bank town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, the sacred place, the third
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters Tuesday in a third straight holiest site in Islam. Police
police clashed with Pales- day of unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. have said that firecrackers
tinian protesters on Tues- and firebombs thrown from
day in a third straight day (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) within the mosque have
of unrest at Jerusalem’s caused fires. Nearby, more
most sensitive holy site. Azzam Khatib, the director ous development.” Police Mosque, Omar Kiswani, Palestinian protesters gath-
Police entered the Al-Aqsa of the Waqf — the Islamic denied the allegation and blamed Israeli police for ered and police used tear
mosque compound early religious authority that over- said officers only removed the tensions and said the gas and stun grenades to
in the morning to disperse sees the compound — said the barricade that protest- gate used for visitors to ac- disperse them. Later, po-
a group of protesters who Israeli police entered deep ers had set up at the en- cess the site should be shut. lice said a Palestinian at-
had holed up inside the inside the mosque in what trance. He did not comment on tacked two young Jews in
mosque overnight, said he called “a very danger- The director of Al-Aqsa the protesters’ alleged use Jerusalem’s Old City, then
police spokeswoman Luba ran away. He was later ar-
Samri. rested, police said.
The protesters threw rocks, Late Tuesday, three Pales-
fireworks, concrete blocks tinians were wounded in
and a firebomb at the of- clashes between militants
ficers, she said, adding from the Islamic Jihad
that two Palestinians were group and Palestinian se-
arrested and five police of- curity forces in the Jenin
ficers were slightly injured in refugee camp in the West
the violence. Bank, doctors and security
A firebomb thrown at po- officials said, speaking on
lice from within the mosque condition of anonymity un-
ignited a rug and wooden der regulations.
planks piled up by the pro- Palestinian police raided
testers, Samri said. Mosque the camp after militants
officials later extinguished from Islamic Jihad opened
the fire and the police fire during their own press
managed to restore calm conference, in anger over
and open the site for visi- the incidents at the Al-Aq-
tors, she added. sa mosque in Jerusalem. q
Anti-corruption protesters rally outside Lebanon ministry
BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of The protesters chanted dent. Lebanon has been ing. Also Tuesday, activists
Lebanese activists held a against corruption in state without a president for over “Why should people not briefly closed a main road
protest on Tuesday outside institutions. a year. doing their job get paid, in downtown Beirut and
a Finance Ministry building They said they are taking “There are 128 lawmakers while others are not getting dumped trash outside the
in the country’s capital, af- their protests to the Finance and they have not been their salaries,” she asked. Environment Ministry after
ter failing to storm it — part Ministry, asking that it stop doing their job,” Neamat Teachers and public sec- a meeting with Environ-
of a recent series of anti- paying salaries for lawmak- Bader al-Deen, an activist tor employees have been ment Minister Mohammed
government rallies stem- ers who have been unable with a group called “We demanding the parliament Machnouk failed to make
ming from a trash collec- to convene. The protesters Want Accountability” told approve a salary scale for progress. The activists say
tion crisis. complain the parliament, local TV channels during over three years. Machnouk rejected their
The protesters attempted elected in 2009, is illegiti- the protest. What started as protests demands to resigns over
to enter the building earlier mate. She estimated that millions against trash piling in the the trash crisis.
in the day, as employees Members of parliament of dollars went to the law- streets because of govern- “The garbage piling up on
were arriving. But security have illegally extended makers who have not con- ment dysfunction is turn- the streets is proof of his fail-
forces quickly prevented their term twice and the vened to review govern- ing into Lebanon’s largest ure,” said activist Hassan
them, closing the doors to legislature remains dead- ment policies, approve a protest movement in years, Katayesh, who has been
the protesters and other ar- locked over an election budget or elect a president targeting an entire political on hunger strike for nearly
riving staffers. law and choosing a presi- because of political bicker- class. two weeks.q
