During a telephone conversation with President Erdogan of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and the leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Khaled Mashaal, it was considered the assault was an act of barbarism.

Dozens of Israeli settlers and 300 security agents recently raided that mosque, where they met resistance from the guards of the sacred place and shot them and religious students.

Abbas condemned the violent action above and requested the help of Turkey, while Mashaal addressed the tensions with the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Jerusalem, stressed the Anadolu agency.

The day before, the chief of the Turkish Government, Ahmet Davutoglu, said that Jerusalem can not be the monopoly of one religion, he called to make a strong response to the actions of Tel Aviv and take the issue to the Security Council of the UN.

Turkey and Israel are experiencing a deterioration in their relations following the assault on a humanitarian flotilla on May 29, 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, while preparing to carry 100 tons of aid to the blockaded Gaza population.

Most of the 633 activists aboard six ships of the Freedom Flotilla were of Turkish origin, so that after the death of nine of them in an assault by Israeli commandos, relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv were frozen.(KH)