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Teens riot in Jerusalem over Temple Mount

An Israeli border police grabs a Palestinian who was trying to reach the Temple Mount for Friday prayers in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 12, 2010. Israeli security forces kept Palestinian men under fifty from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in an attempt to prevent riots in response to the government's decision to expand Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. UPI/Debbie Hill
An Israeli border police grabs a Palestinian who was trying to reach the Temple Mount for Friday prayers in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 12, 2010. Israeli security forces kept Palestinian men under fifty from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in an attempt to prevent riots in response to the government's decision to expand Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. UPI/Debbie Hill | License Photo

JERUSALEM, March 13 (UPI) -- Some Arab teenagers rioted near the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday because police limited prayer at the Temple Mount, officials say.

Ynetnews said police stopped the violence, and the few dozen teenagers agreed to pray at a nearby spot.

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Also Saturday, a few dozen Palestinians attempted to break through a checkpoint on the West Bank after Israel closed it, the report said.

One of the rioters threw a Molotov cocktail, but no one was injured, and Border Guard officers arrested four people, Ynetnews said.

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