Explainer: How Israel turned a holy site into a battleground

With the situation evolving rapidly over the past week - with planned expropriations of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem, violence at al-Aqsa mosque, air strikes and rockets in the besieged Gaza Strip and large protests in Israel and the occupied West Bank - following the news coming out of Palestine and Israel has been a daunting prospect.

MEE's own Frank Andrews has done a day-by-day breakdown of how, during a long weekend of violence, prayer and protest, Israeli security forces turned al-Aqsa, one of the holiest sites in Islam and a symbol of Palestinian resistance, into a battleground. And not for the first time.

For those of you seeking to understand the events unfolding in recent days, you can read the story here.