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AL QUDS, Dec 22: Worshippers assaulted Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher in the Al Aqsa Mosque on Monday and he had to be rushed to hospital.
Mr Maher, 68, was physically beaten and taken unconscious to hospital, but witnesses and police later said he was accosted, jostled and possibly struck several times by a mob shouting that he was a “traitor and collaborator”.
They threw shoes they had removed for prayers at his entourage and at Israeli police escorting him out of the melee to safety outside the mosque. Ahmed Maher, was taken to a hospital for precautionary tests.—Reuters
