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Israel Removes Metal Detectors, Security Cameras at Temple Mount Entrance"I Think Everybody Has Learned a Lesson" -Major General Amos Yadlin
On July 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the temporary closure of the Temple Mount to investigate an early morning shooting attack in which two Israeli border police officers were gunned down and a third injured. The three terrorists who carried out the attack came from the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm and stored their weapons in the al-Aqsa Mosque—reportedly with the help of a Muslim Wakf official—the night before. The new security measures sparked violent protests outside the Lion's Gate and in predominantly Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and Palestinian Authority-controlled cities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). On Tuesday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced the decision to remove the metal detectors and the security cameras. Jordan Releases Israeli Ambassador and Security Guard The teenage terrorist, who stabbed the guard with a screwdriver, and a man identified as the owner of the compound, were both killed in the incident. Jordan refused to allow the guard or the ambassador to leave the country, claiming it wanted to interrogate them. After meeting with them Tuesday morning at his Jerusalem residence, Netanyahu released a statement. "I am happy to see you here and that things ended the way they did," the prime minister told Schlain. "You acted well, calmly, and we also had an obligation to get you out. This was not even a question. It was only a question of time and I am pleased that it was short." "It is good to be home," Schlain responded. "Everything is fine." "A weight has been lifted from my heart. Thank you from my heart," Ziv added. "I am happy to be here. Einat and I felt that people were standing behind us and were making every effort, we felt this and I am glad that we are here." Transform Crisis into Opportunity "I think everybody has learned a lesson," Yadlin told journalists by phone. In the future, he said, Israel may coordinate more with Egypt and Jordan, but at the end of the day Israeli security demands will be received with much more priority and more legitimacy than before. "If the Jordanians make the same mistake they did a week ago (when the Jordanian parliament speaker praised the terror attack on the Temple Mount), we can start all over again, but Israel will have much higher legitimacy." "I think this [decision] gives a lot of room to maneuver on both sides," Yadlin said, and even the claim about changing the status quo [on the site] will give us more time."
"We only accept that the situation returns to what it was before July 14," the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted the mufti. "All other measures at al-Aqsa are rejected." "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemns, in the strongest terms, all the measures taken by the occupation authorities against the al-Aqsa Mosque, whether by placing electronic gates or cameras in its surroundings and yards, or by controlling the entry of worshipers and physically examining and humiliating them," the statement read in part. 'Day of Rage' Late Friday evening, when many had breathed a sigh of relief that things were calming down, a 19-year-old Arab breached the security fence in the Samaria Jewish town of Halamish, stabbing a father and his two grown children to death as they celebrated the birth of the family's newest grandson around the Sabbath table. Hamas, the Palestinian faction controlling the Gaza Strip, praised the bloody massacre.
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