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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Maayan Lubell and Raneen Sawafta

Israel halts Jewish visits to Al-Aqsa, says gunmen shot dead

Palestinians show a bullet hole at a security incident scene near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 11, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

Israel halted visits by Jews and tourists to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Tuesday and its military said soldiers shot dead two Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank, as a wave of unrest showed no sign of subsiding.

Last week, an Israeli police raid at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a tinder-box in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, triggered rocket attacks from Gaza, south Lebanon and Syria that drew Israeli air and artillery strikes.

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