[Ha'aretz/Ynet News] Liel Kyzer - Some 100 Arabs hurled stones and firebombs at Israeli police on the Temple Mount on Sunday, wounding three policemen, after Muslim leaders urged Arabs to defend Jerusalem against "Jewish conquest." During the clashes, police arrested Mahmoud Abbas' adviser on Jerusalem affairs, Hatam Abd al-Qadir. Ali Abu Sheikha, a senior official from the northern faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was also arrested. Abu Sheikha had previously been detained in mid-October for inciting Arabs during the riots on the Temple Mount on Yom Kippur eve. The Islamic Movement had announced that it would make buses available for travel to the mosque on Sunday. Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said police did not enter the Al-Aqsa mosque.
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