JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said there is no turning back on his Gaza withdrawal plan, even after 100,000 Israelis mounted the biggest mass protest against evacuating Jewish settlers from the coastal strip.
"I decided to proceed with the disengagement plan because it is clear that Israel cannot remain in the Gaza Strip forever," his office quoted him as saying.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's public security minister on Saturday warned that Jewish extremists could attack a site holy to Muslims and Jews, hoping to provoke violence and wreck Israeli plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said he had no knowledge of any specific plot to attack the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem - the third holiest shrine in Islam - but intelligence assessments said the danger of such an action was growing.
The sacred hilltop in the Old City of Jerusalem is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Some fundamentalist Jews believe that destroying the mosque compound and rebuilding the temple will bring about the coming of the Messiah.
"We feel that the level of the threat to the Temple Mount, in the sense of an attack by extremist Jewish fanatics in order to reshuffle the cards, to be a catalyst for change to the whole political process, has risen in recent months, or weeks, higher than it has ever been in the past," Hanegbi told Israel's Channel Two television.
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