Masked Arab rioters threw fireworks and rocks at security forces on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, in what has become a tradition of riotous violence before the major Jewish holiday of Sukkot.Here is video of part of the riots, where Muslims celebrate setting a fire at the southern wall of the Temple Mount for no apparent reason. There are no police visible anywhere nearby. Allah Hu Akbar!
Riot police pushed the attackers back by setting up roadblocks, but it was not enough to deter the unrest.
The rioters continued to throw stones, bricks and iron bars at police from inside the Al-Aqsa mosque, while shooting fireworks at police and spraying an unidentified flammable liquid on them.
They also threw a Molotov cocktail at police, which ignited, wounded four officers lightly.
The police have restrained the rioters and removed all barriers protecting the entrance to the mosque. The wounded policemen were treated on the spot.
Five Arabs have now been arrested after the eruption, Arutz Sheva has learned.
"We will continue to show zero tolerance for any attempt to violate the public order, and we will arrest them and bring them to justice," a police spokesperson stated Wednesday morning.
And here they are shooting fireworks towards the Israeli police from within the Al Aqsa mosque:
Keep in mind that every August there are scores of articles in the Arab press about how an Australian set fire to the Al Aqsa Mosque in 1969, causing some damage.
Yet here we see Muslims setting fire to, and shooting incendiary weapons from, their own supposedly holy spot, and it is not even being reported!
(h/t YMedad)