Yasser Arafat called Jewish visits to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount a “big crime.” The Palestinian Authority president made his comments before Palestinian children at a summer camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Al-Aksa Mosque sits atop the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest shrine.
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