Tue 16 Apr 2019:
One of the structures in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem has caught fire on Monday night at the same time a massive blaze was ravaging Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral. The fire was put out quickly with no injuries reported.
حريق داخل المسجد الأقصى !
النيران التهمت غرفة حراس المصلى المرواني بالمسجد . pic.twitter.com/oYEbPLXjiL— منصور أبو عبيدة (@Mansorryaan) April 15, 2019
“The fire broke out in the guard’s room outside the roof of the Marwani Prayer Room,”Wafa news agency said, noting that the “fire brigade of the Islamic Waqf handled the matter successfully.”
Footage posted on social media showed smoke rising from the top of the Marwani Prayer Room, also known as Solomon’s Stables, as firefighters tried to extinguish the flames on top of the Temple Mount, the third holiest site in Islam that has been at the center of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.
