(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke by phone on Friday - a rare occurrence. The Israeli side reported that Abbas condemned the attack and Netanyahu informed him there was no intention of changing the status quo with regard to worship on the Temple Mount. The three assailants, as was obvious from the video footage released by the police, opened fire from within the Al-Aqsa mosque complex outward, on the Border Police stationed at the entrance. Not only was the taboo broken of gunfire at a site sacred to both religions, but someone on the Palestinian side may have aided the assailants to smuggle the weapons in.
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