{"id":35919,"date":"2019-03-17T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35919"},"modified":"2019-03-17T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T16:23:09","slug":"tunisia-seeks-extradition-of-ben-ali-brother-in-law-from-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35919","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia seeks extradition of Ben Ali brother-in-law from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"71\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: An Israeli court on Sunday ordered the temporary closure of a side building at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site that has been the source of tensions in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Jerusalem magistrates court said the building known as the Golden Gate at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, should be closed while the case continues.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe site\u2019s administrator, the Waqf religious organization, was given 60 days to respond to the court case involving the building.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli police have called for the building to be closed.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are believed to be discussions ongoing between Israel and Jordan, the custodian of the holy site, over the status of the building.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere have in recent weeks been scuffles between worshippers and Israeli police at the site in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem over the use of the side building.<\/p>\n<p>\nPalestinian worshippers have been entering the site despite an Israeli order that it should stay closed.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael shut access to the Golden Gate in 2003 during the second Palestinian intifada over alleged militant activity there.<\/p>\n<p>\nPalestinian officials argue that the organization that prompted the ban no longer exists and there is no reason for it to remain closed.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe larger compound is the third-holiest site in Islam and a focus of Palestinian aspirations for statehood.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is also the location of Judaism\u2019s most sacred spot, revered as the site of the two biblical-era Jewish temples.<\/p>\n<p>\nJews are allowed to visit but cannot pray there and it is a frequent scene of tension.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: An Israeli court on Sunday ordered the temporary closure of a side building at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site that has been the source of tensions in recent weeks. The Jerusalem magistrates court said the building known as the Golden Gate at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}