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JERUSALEM'S AL-AQSA MOSQUE FIRE BURNS AT THE SAME TIME AS FLAMES ENGULF NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL IN PARIS
By Tom O'Connor at Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/notre-dame-fire-aqsa-mosque-1397259?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true
"SNIP....
A fire broke out at the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem just as flames ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Footage showing smoke and fire emerging from the roof of a structure known as the Marwani Prayer Room, or Solomon's Stables, could be seen on social media. The Palestine News Agency, the official outlet of the Palestinian National Authority, cited a guard as saying Monday that "the fire broke out in the guard's room outside the roof of the Marwani Prayer Room, and the fire brigade of the Islamic Waqf handled the matter successfully."
News of the incident at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam and central to the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, was largely overshadowed by a much larger blaze engulfing the Notre Dame Cathedral at the same time.
The Palestine News Agency reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' office "expressed its deep regret Monday over the fire that broke out at the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in the center of the French capital of Paris, which caused the collapse of the cathedral tower."
.....SNIP"
Bettie
(16,151 posts)Glad they managed to get it under control.
Hekate
(91,055 posts)malaise
(269,340 posts)from global coverage
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)it was a guard's quarters, not the main structure.
irisblue
(33,061 posts)🕯️
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,818 posts)applegrove
(118,940 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,013 posts)rzemanfl
(29,587 posts)trickyguy
(769 posts)Seems like the world is aflame these past few days. Very tragic.
But we know the French will re-build. They are a stoic people.
And the Palestinians as well.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)Igel
(35,390 posts)and made not just ruins and underground storeroom (or "water storage", depending on who you listen to) in late 1996. Less than 23 years old.
Before that, it was used a stables during the Crusades. But all that was left from that was stone and rock and dirt.
Otherwise it was the site of some pretty serious digging into Roman-period (or older) strata without permits or archeologists.
applegrove
(118,940 posts)wryter2000
(46,145 posts)Having more than one thing awful happen at the same time is a signature of Al Qaeda. I hope not, but this is horrible.
applegrove
(118,940 posts)Mosby
(16,422 posts)""https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904161074167005-Blaze-Erupts-Jerusalems-Historic-al-Aqsa-Mosque/
There is no other major American news org reporting this, only Newsweek.
Ma'an news has nothing about it:
https://www.maannews.com/ViewPage.aspx?p=JER
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)no nut ball christian in Jerusalem decided paris was a muslim attack and attempted to retaliate...