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Israeli military forces continue operations to capture cells of armed organizations, which are reportedly on the verge of carrying out armed attacks against Israeli targets.
On Wednesday, the focus of operations was on the village of Silouad, on the outskirts of Ramallah. According to the Israeli security authorities, a group of Palestinian gunmen were preparing to go directly inside Israel and commit a strike.
Special forces of the army surrounded a house in Silouad, where members of the group were reportedly located. This event triggered demonstrations by young Palestinian residents of the village, who began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at the Israeli soldiers. One Palestinian protester was killed by military fire.
Israeli police arrested two Jewish religious Israeli citizens, who were reportedly preparing to perform a religious sacrifice in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a site which, according to Jewish tradition, housed the central bastion of the Jewish religion, more commonly known as the 'Temple of Solomon'.
The two arrested men, allegedly belonging to the extremist Jewish religious organization 'Return to the Temple Mount', are being held by the Israeli authorities and are being interrogated. As reported yesterday by Israeli state television, a senior Israeli police official said that "a small group of extremists will not be allowed to disrupt the status quo of the city's religious shrines."
Source: CNA
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