Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Abdel Azeem Salhab had been arrested for violating an order preventing entry into a prohibited area of the holy site. The arrests follow the detention of 60 others overnight Thursday to Friday as police said they were responding to calls for unrest at the holy site surrounding Friday prayers there. Some have since been released with an order not to visit the holy site. A statement from Jordan’s religious affairs minister, Abdul Nasser Abu al-Basal, said the arrests were “playing with fire” at the sensitive holy site. The religious site is located in east Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed in a move never recognised by the international community.

Source: The Express Tribune February 24, 2019 09:33 UTC