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New clashes left about thirty injured at daybreak on the esplanade of the mosques in Jerusalem.
Clashes between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli police have been recurrent since the beginning of the month of Ramadan.
The protesters intend to defend the third holiest site of Islam against Jewish intrusions and denounce the interventions of the Israeli army in the West Bank.
The Israeli authorities claim to want to protect religious freedoms and oppose the politicization of the site.
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The violence provokes strong diplomatic reactions in Arab countries which have normalized their relations with Israel.
This is the case in Jordan, which is in charge of managing the perimeter of the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, of the Emiratis who have given up participating in an aerial parade on the occasion of the upcoming celebration of independence. of Israel and Morocco, the latest comer in the Abraham Accords sealing an unprecedented agreement between the Jewish state and Muslim countries.
The United States and the European Union exert pressure for the maintenance of the status quo in these places symbolic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This time, the police still present on the esplanade of the mosques charged massively to suppress after the dawn prayer the rioters throwing stones, shooting fireworks and waving for some of the flags of Hamas, the Islamo- Palestinian nationalist.
Palestinians near the mosque esplanade on April 22.
AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS
Politico-messianic considerations
The incidents take place in a particular politico-religious context with the concordance between Ramadan and the Passover holidays, the Jewish Passover which ends on Saturday evening.
On the Israeli side, this period is an opportunity to visit the esplanade of the mosques, the Temple Mount, also a sacred place in Judaism.
Access to the site is for non-Muslims via a footbridge where you come across groups of Jewish believers from yashivod, the Talmudic schools.
Those who venture there choose not to content themselves with praying in front of the Wailing Wall, part of the support of the ancient temple of Judaism built in the 1st century.
Some are motivated by a form of mysticism, others by politico-messianic considerations.
The latter want to raze al-Aqsa and rebuild the second temple.
Israeli police present on the esplanade of the mosques on April 22.
AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP
Since the conquest by Israel in 1967 of the old city of Jerusalem, a consensus prevails: the Jews have the right to go there, but not to pray there in an ostentatious way.
The agreement is gradually undermined because visitors, supervised by police, do not follow the instructions of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibiting to gather on this venerated place, but which they consider impure.
During the Passover holiday, about 2,000 practitioners went to the esplanade of the mosques without major incident.
A record figure that makes the Palestinians fear an attempt to progressively appropriate their sanctuaries.
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A skid can always ignite the powder.
The fragile and heterogeneous coalition government combining the religious right and the left has little room for manoeuvre.
He fears a kiss.
The Palestinian Authority represented by Mahmoud Abbas has no sway over angry young worshipers as Gaza's ruling Hamas escalates the showdown.
Since this Friday, which marks the start of the last ten days of Ramadan, only Muslims are allowed to enter the compound and Palestinians from the Palestinian territories will be banned from entering Israel this weekend marking the end of Passover.
Measures intended in theory to freeze the worst-case scenario.