Israel ‘playing with fire and risking major crisis with Islamic world’, Arab League chief warns

‘Israel is “playing with fire and risking a major crisis with the Arab and Islamic world,” the Arab League has warned.
The warning came after Israel sent extra troops into the occupied West Bank as violence erupted over Israel’s installation of metal detectors at entry points to the shrine, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
A spate of violence has seen a Palestinian attacker stab three Israelis to death on Friday, with three Palestinians killed hours before.
“Jerusalem is a red line that Muslims and Arabs cannot allow to be crossed … and what is happening today is an attempt to impose a new reality on the Holy city,” Arab League secretary-general Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.
“The Israeli government is playing with fire and risking a major crisis with the Arab and Islamic world.”’

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