Thousands of Indonesian Moslem demonstration protest of Israeli security forces entered the Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque

Thousands of Indonesian Moslem demonstration protest of Israeli security forces entered the Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque

Thousands of Indonesian Moslem demonstration after Friday prayer at Al-
Azhar Mosque, South Jakarta, Indonesia on October 30, 2009 to protest the Israeli police and security forces whose entered the first Moslem Prayer direction, before they changing to Kaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

They vow the Indonesian government makes any warn statement to Israeli government. ‘’We shame that the only Indonesian government which do not have a properly statement about the Al-Aqsa mosque cases. Turkey, Kuwait and other Moslem countries has already a protest statements,’’ said the demonstration leaders.

After they heard the Moslem leaders oration, they moved to Palestinian embassy in Jakarta to give a fully support and then went to Indonesian Susilo Bambang YudhoyonoSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono state palace to vow their statements.

Authorities took the view it was an isolated incident and said they may lift restrictions on access to the mosque compound within days if calm prevails.

Several hundred Palestinians performed prayers in the open just outside the Old City after being denied access to Al-Aqsa.

Security forces set up checkpoints around and within the Old City and turned back Palestinians who do not live or work there, eyewitnesses said.

However, they were allowing in tourists and Jews wanting to pray at the Western Wall — also known as the Wailing Wall — below the mosque compound.

Most stores in the Old City shut down, though some shop-owners grumbled about the strike.

“We need to strengthen our presence in Jerusalem, not weaken it,” said sweets-seller Ramdan Abu Sbeeh, 32, who defied the strike call.

Palestinian president Mahmud AbbasMahmud Abbas’s secular Fatah party called the strike “to peacefully protest and to proclaim the attachment of the Palestinian people to their holy places and to Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the independent Palestinian state.”

Fatah accused Israeli forces of allowing rightwing Jewish extremists to enter the mosque compound while denying access to Muslims.

Israeli police claimed the Islamic Movement incited tension and this week briefly detained its leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, for making “inflammatory statements.”

Salah, who previously spent two years in Israeli prison, has repeatedly called in recent days for Muslims to “defend” Al-Aqsa against Israel.

Israel imposed the restrictions on access to the mosque compound following a series of clashes that started late last month. Women could enter freely but the only men authorised to attend Friday prayers were Muslim residents of east Jerusalem or Israel over the age of 50.

The Al-Aqsa compound, known to Muslims as Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as the Temple Mount, has often been a flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.