An Iranian missile hit Jerusalem, touchdown only a few hundred metres from the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on Eid al-Fitr. Israel on Saturday confirmed that the missile struck near among the world’s holiest websites for Muslims, Christians and Jews.
“An Iranian missile struck Jerusalem throughout Eid al-Fitr, just a few hundred meters from the holiest websites for Muslims, Christians and Jews. That is the true face of the Mullahs’ so-called ‘non secular’ regime,” the Israeli International Ministry posted on X.
On March 16, Shrapnel from ballistic missiles fired by Iran and particles from the Israeli interceptors that shot them down fell on Monday round Jerusalem’s walled Previous Metropolis and a few of its most sacred Christian, Muslim and Jewish websites, Israeli police stated.
There have been no casualties or main injury reported on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or the close by hilltop plateau identified to Muslims as Al-Aqsa compound and to Jews as Temple Mount, a flashpoint web site that’s holy to each faiths.
Images distributed by police confirmed three officers carrying what gave the impression to be a big steel ring-shaped a part of a missile off a red-tiled roof adjoining to the Holy Sepulchre, the normal web site of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial and a preferred pilgrimage web site.
One other picture confirmed a police cordon round a small space within the Al-Aqsa compound plaza which additionally homes the golden Dome of the Rock, with small fragments strewn on the ground.
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