Arab League chief: 'Israel is playing with fire'

The Arab League has warned Israel about crossing "a red line" in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the sacred city of Jerusalem. Meanwhile, an Israeli minister said the metal detectors that triggered the violence will remain.

"The Israeli government is playing with fire and risking a major crisis with the Arab and Islamic world," Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement cited by Reuters.

"Jerusalem is a red line that Muslims and Arabs cannot allow to be crossed… and what is happening today is an attempt to impose a new reality on the Holy city," he also said.

He also called on Israel not to deepen the conflict and urged the international community to "oblige the Israeli government to maintain the status quo" as its current policies "hurt the feelings" of all the Muslim world, not...