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• Tel Aviv working alongside US and right-wing groups to declare compound ‘multi-faith centre’

• Israeli settlers torch two mosques in occupied West Bank

HARDLINE Israeli officials and radical right-wing politicians are working with the United States to alter the longstanding ‘Status Quo’ at the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, pushing a highly inflammatory campaign to usurp the exclusively Muslim site, BBC News reported.

Recent media reports indicate the Israeli government intends to formally designate the compound as a “multi-faith centre”.