An Israeli court in Tel Aviv ruled on Sunday that Jewish Israeli settlers have to get police protection when they storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest place for Muslims.
The Israeli jewishpress.com considered it a big victory for the Jewish Israeli settlers against the police, claiming that the Israeli police prevents them from storming the mosque.
“The bigger victory was the court’s criticism of the police’s actions towards Jews on the Temple Mount [Al-Aqsa Mosque] and the explicit ruling that the police must ensure that Jews be able to pray on the Jewish people’s holiest site,” the website reported.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick took the police to court and sued for damages after he recovered from a wounds caused when a Palestinian resident from Jerusalem shot him in last November.
Christian member of the Fatah Central Council Dimitri Diliani criticised the ruling, saying the Israeli judiciary are part of Israel’s Judaisation process.
Diliani said that the Israeli judiciary is based on a clear violation of the international law as it issues rules that are enforced by weapons in an occupied land.
Describing the ruling as political, he warned that such rulings push the region to a new round of violence.