A statement on the Foreign Ministry website had warned that Hamas had called on “all of its supporters around the world to hold a ‘Day of Rage'” on Friday to “attack Israelis and Jews.”
From the typically sedate streets of downtown Amman in Jordan, to Yemen’s war-scarred capital of Sanaa, crowds of Muslim worshipers poured into the streets after weekly Friday prayers, angered by devastating Israeli airstrikes on Gaza that began after the terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented and devastating surprise attack on Israel last Saturday in which some 1,300 were killed, most of them civilians.
At the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli police were permitting only certain older men, women and children to enter the flashpoint compound for prayers, trying to limit the potential for violence. Only 5,000 worshipers made it into the site, the Islamic endowment that manages the mosque said. On a typical Friday, some 50,000 perform the prayers.
Young Palestinian men who were refused entry gathered at the steps near Lion’s Gate until police shepherded them outside the Old City ramparts altogether. READ MORE
