Israel’s magistrate court in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday decided to close the Aqsa Mosque’s Bab al-Rahma prayer area for 60 days.
According to the Hebrew website Walla the Israeli court decided to respond to a petition filed by the Israeli occupation police asking for closing Bab al-Rahma and its prayer area for security reasons.
Last Tuesday the Israeli police had closed the gates of the Aqsa Mosque including the Bab al-Rahma assaulted worshipers and expelled them from the Mosque after Palestinians allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a police post there but later the holy site was reopened on Wednesday.
Extrimist Jewish groups have repeatedly declared their intents to take over the Bab al-Rahma area and build a Jewish temple there as a prelude to taking over the entire Islamic holy site which they call temple mount.
