Senior Israeli Muslim leader held

Jerusalem, 07 Oct-(ANA)-A leader of Israel's Islamic Movement, Raed Salah, has been arrested amid escalating tension in Jerusalem.

He was later released and barred from entering Jerusalem for 30 days.

Tensions over the complex containing the al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall have boiled over into rioting several times in the past two weeks.

Extra Israeli police have been deployed for a Jewish festival. Some Palestinian officials have accused Israel of trying to "Judaise" Jerusalem.

The religious site known as Temple Mount to Jews and Haram al-Sharif to Palestinians is hotly contested, and was the flashpoint that led to the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which broke out in 2000. (ANA)

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