Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Hamas threatened 'repercussions' over Jewish visits to Jerusalem's super-sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in a warning issued Thursday (Friday in Manila), days before the start of the Jewish high holidays when visitor numbers increase.

The mosque compound in the Old City of Israel-annexed east Jerusalem has been the focus of tensions for years, but Palestinians have voiced increasing anger at the rising number of visits by Jews, who revere the compound as their holiest site, the Temple Mount.