Al-Aqsa Mosque frequent tensions in Ramadan

Israeli police attacked worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the holy month of Ramadan, causing tensions to flare in Jerusalem. The police claimed they were responding to “rioting” and were forced to enter the compound after “masked agitators” locked themselves inside the mosque with fireworks, sticks and stones. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is a contested site, which hosts Islam’s third-holiest site, and is also where Jews believe the Biblical Jewish temples once stood. Palestinians fear a slow encroachment by Jewish groups and far-right Israeli movements that want to demolish the Islamic structures in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and build a Jewish temple there.