{"id":186829,"date":"2019-04-16T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186829"},"modified":"2019-04-18T06:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:41:37","slug":"al-aqsa-mosque-catches-fire-as-notre-dame-cathedral-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186829","title":{"rendered":"Al-Aqsa mosque catches fire as Notre-Dame cathedral burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Al Araby.co.uk \u2013 April 15, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_138054\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dome-of-the-Rock-and-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-Jerusalem-August-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138054\" class=\"wp-image-138054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dome-of-the-Rock-and-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-Jerusalem-August-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-138054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque Jerusalem August 2016. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As the iconic cathedral of Notre Dame burned in Paris, a fire broke out at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The fire broke out in the guard&#8217;s room outside the roof of the Marwani prayer room, Antar al-Hazmawi, a guard of the al-Aqsa mosque confirmed to the <em>The New Arab<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The fire brigade of the Islamic Waqf department in Jerusalem managed to control the blaze, while the area is currently closed to examine the cause of the fire, which is currently unclear.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/qudsn\/status\/1117850437573578754<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli police have opened an investigation into the incident, reportedly involving the questioning of a guard, who was supposed to be on duty at the time of the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A guard told <em>The New Arab<\/em> that there was a short gap between guard rotation from 7.15 to 7.30 in the evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Meanwhile the Catholic Church in the Holy Land said it is praying the fire that ripped through the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday was &#8220;not intentional&#8221; while expressing solidarity with the church in France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/news\/2019\/4\/15\/al-aqsa-mosque-catches-fire-as-notre-dame-cathedral-burns\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it a coincidence that as flames engulfed the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday, a fire also broke out at one of Islam&#8217;s holiest sites in Jerusalem?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186834,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186829\/revisions\/186834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}