The Palestinian Authority asked the Israeli government to confiscate weapons from Jewish settlers in response to a suspected plot to throw a pig’s head onto the Temple Mount complex during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, the wife of one of the two jailed suspects said she was launching a hunger strike to protest the way her husband was being treated.
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