The World - News from Sept. 6, 1988

Israel accused a top Muslim religious leader of inciting worshipers to attack Jews at an archeological site in Jerusalem. Police said that Mohammed Jamal, deputy head of Jerusalem’s Supreme Muslim Council, broadcast a call to worshipers to fight Jews working on a dig near two of the city’s mosques. On July 3, riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinians enraged by the dig near Temple Mount, which houses two of Islam’s holiest shrines. “What I did is not incitement,” Jamal said. “It is the right of Muslims to come to their holy place and defend it.”