Two years ago, a crush at a packed Jewish holy site in the country’s north killed 45 people. The friction over Saturday’s Orthodox Easter ritual has been fueled in part by a rare convergence of holidays in Jerusalem’s bustling Old City. The mosque stands on a hilltop that is the holiest site for Jews, who revere it as the Temple Mount. Israel captured the Old City, along with the rest of the city’s eastern half, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move not internationally recognized. “It’s the light of Christ,” she said, standing between an ice cream parlor and a dumpster in the Old City.

Source: Ethiopian News April 13, 2023 22:34 UTC