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IDF soldiers visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound - Jerusalem

May 21st, 2012 by Mahmoud illean
Mahmoud illean
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2012.
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Israeli Defense Force soldiers walk across the front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Israeli soldiers walk in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during a visit under Israeli police protection in Jerusalem's Old City.

Israeli soldiers broke into dozens of courtyards am blessed Al Aqsa Mosque in uniform.
Said Sheikh Abdel Azim Salhab Chairman of the Board of Awqaf Islamic he continued for a second day in a row to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque was yesterday a new kind of non-members of the Knesset so that the members of the Israeli army estimated to number about 85 soldiers wearing military uniforms broke into the yards Far from the Mughrabi Gate.
He described the raids as a violation of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa, so that the Israeli authorities want to impose a new reality and the erosion of the role of the Islamic Waqf in the care of the mosque, stressing the importance that the endowments of their obligation to the fullest as responsible for the management and care of the mosque.

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