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By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, APRIL 10. Israeli police have arrested a leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who had entered Jerusalem in the wake of a threat by Jewish extremists to march on a sensitive religious site. Hassan Youssef, a Hamas leader, who was released from an Israeli jail last year, was detained near a checkpoint as he was heading towards the West Bank after leaving the Haram al-Sharif area. The Haram al-Sharif complex in East Jerusalem, which Jews also call the Temple Mount, has the Al Aqsa mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Wailing Wall. Mr. Youssef had apparently slipped into Jerusalem, disguised as an elderly cleric. Israeli police swarmed the walled compound in Jerusalem's Old City so that a proposed rally by Jewish extremists could be thwarted. Eventually, only a few dozen Jewish ultra nationalists tried to get to the area, police said. At least three members of the Jewish Right-wing group, Revava were arrested in Jerusalem. The planned Revava rally was timed with the departure to Texas by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, for talks with the U.S. President, George W. Bush. Revava and other nationalist Jewish groups oppose Mr. Sharon's plan to pull out settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and four areas of the West Bank. The call for the rally had heightened tensions in the region. The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) had on Saturday warned that an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque would lead to a furious response. "Hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world will be filled with unprecedented rage", in case an attack was initiated. The statement said that such an action would "ignite the fire of extremism that will have serious and direct repercussions on global peace." A visit by then-Opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, to the compound in September 2000 had triggered the Palestinian Intifada or uprising. In related developments, a group of Israeli Right-wingers blocked a major highway near Tel Aviv this morning.
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