{"id":318088,"date":"2017-07-19T23:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T22:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-story-behind-the-jerusalem-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T23:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T22:44:49","slug":"the-story-behind-the-jerusalem-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-story-behind-the-jerusalem-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story behind the Jerusalem Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Early October 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/10\/misbah-abu-sbeih-reached-breaking-point-family-161011102251854.html\">Misbah Abu Sbeih<\/a> left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of 4 months in jail for, allegedly, trumped up charges of \u2018trying to hit an Israeli soldier\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Misbah is familiar with Israeli prisons, having been held there before on political charges, including an attempt to sneak into and pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of a large compound known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/aljazeeraworld\/2015\/11\/jerusalem-dividing-al-aqsa-151110154741523.html\">Haram al-Sharif<\/a>, which includes \u2013 aside from Al-Aqsa \u2013 the famed Dome of the Rock and other Palestinian Muslim sites, revered by Muslims everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Aqsa is believed to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.net\/encyclopedia\/citiesandregions\/2014\/11\/8\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%89\">second mosque ever to be built<\/a>, the first being Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The Holy Quran mentions it as the place from which Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven, journeying from Mecca to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>For Palestinians, Muslims and Christians alike, the Mosque took on a new meaning following the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian city of al-Quds (East Jerusalem) in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2017\/06\/50-years-israeli-occupation-longest-modern-history-170604111317533.html\">Israeli soldiers<\/a> raising the Israeli flag over Muslim and Christian shrines in the city fifty years ago, is burnt into the collective memory of several generations.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, therefore, that the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/israels-latest-provocation-al-aqsa\/8749\">focal point of clashes<\/a> between Palestinian worshipers and the Israeli army.<\/p>\n<p>Daily visitors to the Muslim holy shrines in Jerusalem&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/07\/the-story-behind-the-jerusalem-attack\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of 4 months in jail for, allegedly, trumped up charges of \u2018trying to hit an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}