I funzionari del governo e della sicurezza hanno tenuto mercoledì consultazioni intense sulla crisi del Monte Tempio . I funzionari della Shin Bet, l'esercito e il coordinatore delle attività del governo nei territori hanno espresso riserve sull'impiego dei rivelatori metallici agli ingressi del Monte del Tempio. I funzionari hanno sollecitato una soluzione che permettesse a Israele di uscirne "con dignità" senza dover rischiare disordini a Gerusalemme e in Cisgiordania..
Il ministro degli esteri giordano Ayman al Safadi ha puntualizzato mercoledì che la chiave per calmare la situazione a Gerusalemme e alla moschea di Al-Aqsa è nelle mani di Israele. Ha affermato che il re Abdullah, personalmente in contatto con Israele, è impegnato a preservare lo status quo e ha invitato Israele a ritirare le proprie decisioni . Il presidente palestinese Mahmoud Abbas sta tenendo colloqui con i leader arabi e mondiali nel tentativo di impedire un'escalation a Gerusalemme, ha detto il suo portavoce Nabil Abu Rudeineh mercoledì. Abbas terrà una riunione di emergenza giovedì con i capi delle forze di sicurezza palestinesi
I visitatori ebrei sono stati espulsi mercoledì dal composto per aver portato libri sacri al Monte e per aver cercato di pregare lì.. Il sito è stato quindi temporaneamente chiuso ai visitatori.
Security officials fear Temple Mount crisis could harm relations
with Jordan ■ Netanyahu: Israel asked Jordan, Arab world to help
restore peace ■ Abbas said working to prevent escalation
Government and security officials have been holding on Wednesday intense consultations over the Temple Mount crisis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage held phone conversations
with top security officials in an attempt to find a way out of the
developing crisis with the Palestinians over the installation of metal
detectors at the entries to Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
Netanyahu will hold further consultations Wednesday evening, and again on Thursday, after his return from Hungary.
In the talks thus far,
officials from the Shin Bet, army and the Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories expressed reservations about insisting on
the continued use of metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple
Mount. The officials urged that a solution be found that would allow
Israel to extricate itself “with dignity” from this conflict, without
having it escalate into broader unrest in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, listening to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu during a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 19,
2017.Balazs Mohai/AP
The Temple Mount was
reopened to Jewish visitors on Wednesday on the orders of Jerusalem
police chief Yoram Halevy, after being closed down following a deadly attack last
Friday. The placement of metal detectors at the site after the attack
led to violent confrontations between Muslim worshippers and police in
the following days.
One
proposal under consideration is for a senior Western or Arab personage
to approach Israel with a plan for resolving the crisis. The army is
readying for the possibility that reinforcements will be needed this
weekend in case of potential disturbances.
Security
officials also discussed the need to prepare for possible rocket fire
from Gaza and for possible mass protests organized by Hamas close to the
border fence.
Netanyahu: Metal detectors don't alter status quo
Metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount, July 18, 2016.Olivier Fitoussi
Meanwhile, the prime
minister said in a briefing to reporters in Budapest that Israel has not
changed its position concerning metal detectors at the entries to the
holy site.
“There is no change regarding the metal detectors,” Netanyahu said.
“No other decision has been made about the Temple Mount. This evening I
will hold another consultation with security officials. There are
different views and I am listening to them."
He also said Israel
has turned to Jordan and to Arab countries and asked them for their help
to restore the peace to the Temple Mount.
Netanyahu asserted
that the metal detector policy for Temple Mount was nothing new. "We
told the Jordanians that until 2000, metal detectors were being used
partially at the Temple Mount," he noted. "We’ve told this to the whole
Arab world."
Israel, Netanyahu
said, is in continuous contact with Jordan. "They would like to end this
as quietly as possible. We expect everyone to help restore calm," he
said. "We should look at the facts and the truth – the installation of
metal detectors does not constitute any change in the status quo. It is
only meant to prevent a repeat of an attack with weapons.”
Jordanian Foreign
Minister Ayman al Safadi said on Wednesday that the key to calming the
situation in Jerusalem and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in Israel's hands.
He said that King Abdullah, who is personally in contact with Israel, is
demanding to preserve the status quo and for Israel to rescind its
decisions of the past few days regarding security at the compound.
Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas is holding talks with Arab and world leaders in an
attempt to prevent an escalation in Jerusalem, his spokesman Nabil Abu
Rudeineh said Wednesday. Abbas will hold an emergency meeting Thursday
with the heads of Palestinian security forces ahead of prayers on
Friday.
Renewed clashes erupted between
protesters and Israeli security forces on Wednesday, which Fatah
declared a Day of Rage, near the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City,
where police used stun grenades against the demonstrators. However, the
day passed with relatively few such incidents. Still, the IDF is worried
about possible escalation ahead of the Friday prayers, as well as the
Jerusalem mufti’s call to worshippers in the city’s mosques to exercise
their right to pray at Al Aqsa on Friday.
Tensions in the West Bank were exacerbated by a road accident that occurred on Wednesday afternoon.
Jewish visitors were
expelled on Wednesday from the compound for bringing sacred books to the
Mount and trying to pray there. After one of the individuals was
cautioned, another took out a holy book, and the group was expelled. The
site was then temporarily closed to visitors.
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