Israeli police on Thursday reopened all the doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex after a temporary shut-down, barring worshipers from entering it, Anadolu Agency reports.
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, a Jordan-run organization responsible for overseeing the city's Islamic sites, announced the reopening of the doors in a statement.
Earlier Thursday, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, director of East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, told Anadolu Agency that "the repeated closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque's doors is unacceptable and the Israeli authorities should immediately stop this approach, which has turned into a policy."
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Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man in the courtyard of the mosque.
For its part, the Israeli police said in a statement that an attempt to carry out a stabbing took place in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Police claimed that they arrested the individual who attempted the attack, without giving further details.
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