{"id":5551,"date":"2015-07-31T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2015-07-31T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:07:35","slug":"israel-closes-gates-of-al-aqsa-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/israel-closes-gates-of-al-aqsa-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel closes gates of al-Aqsa Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Israel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5552\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Israel1.jpg\" alt=\"Israel\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Israeli police on Friday closed the gates of occupied East Jerusalem\u2019s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following the brutal killing of a Palestinian baby in a village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official said.<br \/>\n\u201cIsraeli police stepped up security measures around the flashpoint mosque, deploying hundreds of troops in surrounding areas and erecting roadblocks at the entrances of the mosque,\u201d Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, director-general of Muslim Endowments and Al-Aqsa Affairs, told Anadolu Agency.<br \/>\n\u201cOnly men over 50 and women of all ages were allowed to enter the mosque after undergoing rigorous inspection,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nFor Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world&#8217;s third holiest site. Jews, for their part, refer to the area as the \u201cTemple Mount,\u201d claiming it was the site of two prominent Jewish temples in ancient times.<br \/>\nIsrael occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/israel-closes-gates-of-al-aqsa-mosque\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli police on Friday closed the gates of occupied East Jerusalem\u2019s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following the brutal killing of a Palestinian baby in a village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official said. \u201cIsraeli police stepped up security measures around the flashpoint mosque, deploying hundreds of troops in surrounding areas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}