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Jerusalem Day was marred by violence Wednesday, with two separate attacks taking place in the capital. Meanwhile, the Temple Mount complex has been closed to visitors after riots broke out. Masked Arab Palestinian youths attacked police officers with stones and then barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. One officers sustained light injuries. According to the police, the stone throwing began with the site's opening in the morning hours, with Arab youths shouting out and heckling Israeli visitors, and masked youths throwing stones at the police. A police force entered the compound and quelled the disorder, but afterwards a group of youths fled to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and began throwing rocks and firecrackers at security forces. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "a small group of rioters" caused the disturbance on the hilltop compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount. Meanwhile, two young Jewish men were attacked in Jerusalem's Old City, they sustained light injuries and did not require medical attention. Police later arrested two Arab youths in connection to the event.
The skirmishes came as Israel marks Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the anniversary of Israel's liberation of East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria in the 1967 Mideast war.
Source: Ynet
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