A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a wooden gate leading to the Al Aksa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, causing damage but no injuries. Israeli police said they were investigating the attack, which occurred a day after an Arab worker was stabbed to death in a fervently Orthodox neighborhood near the Old City.
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