Protests

Just as Mass was ending this morning, we could hear schoolboys outside our monastery chanting slogans and kicking down their school door. Apparently the soldiers closed their school which lies on the northern wall of the Dome of the Rock esplanade. The schoolboys charged several times trying to breakdown the door and stopped only when their teachers and principal arrived to speak to the soldiers inside. After another half hour of protests, they relented and opened the school. Calm was restored. But the rest of the City remains closed.