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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Israeli police detained a Palestinian man and his mother while they were at a cotton market in the Old City of Jerusalem, witnesses told Ma'an.

Israeli police stopped the mother and denied her access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque where she studies Islamist law. Her son Tariq al-Hashlamoun intervened before police officers detained both and took them to a police station.

Tariq is an employee at the Ministry of Endowment’s hajj department.

“Israel’s attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque is ongoing and settlers are desecrating the holy place protected by Israeli police,” said Sheikh Abdul-Atheem Salhab, the chair of the local endowments department.