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Palestinian official warns of looming 'religious war'
8 October 2014 17:16 BST
A Palestinian cabinet minister on Wednesday blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a recent eruption of violence in Jerusalem, warning against a possible "religious war" that would "harm everyone living" in the holy city.
"Netanyahu turns a blind eye to the actions of radical [Jewish] settlers," Adnan al-Husseini, Jerusalem affairs minister in the Palestinian government, said.
"He [Netanyahu] supports their repeated attacks against the Al-Aqsa Mosque, attacks by Israeli security men on Muslims, and the prevention of thousands of Muslims from praying at the house of worship," he added in a written statement to Anadolu Agency.