UK minister's visit to Jerusalem holy site hampered by Israeli police
Israeli forces blocked the UK's Middle East minister from visiting the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem for 30 minutes before allowing him to enter./ Lord Ahmad, a practising Muslim, was visiting the occupied east of the city during an official trip to the region./ The Islamic authority administering the site called it "unacceptable", saying: "Whether he came as a minister or as a Muslim he shouldn't have been blocked."/ Speaking to the BBC afterwards, Lord Ahmad played down the wait./ He described it as "security checks, whatever they ...
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