Egypt Islamist MP calls for storming of Israeli embassies.CAIRO: An Egyptian Islamist MP called on Sunday for the storming of Israeli embassies around the world if Israelis entered Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque
Al-Aqsa Mosque (The Farthest Mosque) (Arabic: المسجد الاقصى, [IPA /æl'mæsdʒɪd æl'ɑqsˁɑ/, compound. Subhi Saleh, an MP affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood, officially Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun [Arab.,=Society of Muslim Brothers], religious and political organization founded (1928) in Egypt by Hasan al-Banna. said Israeli embassies "in every country" should be stormed if Israelis enter the site. "Embassies have diplomatic immunity A principle of International Law that provides foreign diplomats with protection from legal action in the country in which they work. Established in large part by the Vienna conventions, diplomatic immunity is granted to individuals depending on their rank and the but our holy places have divine immunity immunity, ability of an organism to resist disease by identifying and destroying foreign substances or organisms. Although all animals have some immune capabilities, little is known about nonmammalian immunity. , so if they enter Al-Aqsa let us enter their embassies," he said during a heated meeting of his parliamentary bloc. Tensions over the compound turned violent on September 27 when Palestinians hurled rocks at a group of rightwing Jewish extremists. Home to the Western Wall of the Second Temple, it is Judaism's holiest site and Islam's third most sacred. Amid the tensions, Israel a week ago denied access to the site to non-Muslim visitors and to Muslim males under the age of 50. But it reopened the compound on Sunday. In September 2000, the second Palestinian intifada The Palestinian Intifada may refer to:
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