Occupied Jerusalem Islamic organizations in Jerusalem called on the Islamic nation on Thursday to take “urgent and effective” measures to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from Judaization.
This came in a joint statement issued by the Council of Endowments and Islamic Affairs and Holy Places, which includes the Supreme Islamic Authority, the Palestinian Fatwa House, the Department of the Chief Justice, and the Department of Jerusalem Endowments and Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Jerusalemite bodies headed to The Islamic nation – by virtue of its religious duty – must take “urgent and effective measures to stop the unprecedented and escalating Judaization attacks, which threaten the safety and function of the first of the two Qiblahs and the place of the Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey and Ascension.”
She added that the occupation police and army give Jewish extremists free rein to practice various forms of Talmudic prayers, dancing, debauchery, shouting, raising flags, and blowing the trumpet, “in a blatant and provocative challenge to every free and honorable Muslim in the world.”
The Islamic bodies in Jerusalem, represented by the Islamic Endowments Council, the Supreme Islamic Authority, the Palestinian Fatwa House, the Department of the Chief Justice, and the Jerusalem Endowments Department, issued a joint statement condemning the serious violations committed by settlers during their storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to the statement.
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Serious overstepping
The bodies held the international community and the Islamic world responsible for “not stopping” The Israeli occupation authorities’ transgressions of the red lines in desecrating and violating the sanctity of the mosque.
She urged the Muslims of Palestine and the Muslim world, each according to his ability, to defend the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and to travel to pray there, “so that it remains prosperous and for Muslims alone, with its area of 144 dunams above and below ground.”
The statement concluded by pointing out that “the prayers, dancing and shouting of Jewish extremists in Al-Aqsa Mosque are legally, historically and religiously invalid and are nothing more than a defiance and obstruction of the path of God and a desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which God will thwart in this world and punish them for in the hereafter.”
The statement of the Islamic organizations comes in light of the dangerous escalation witnessed recently in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the settlers’ storming and performing prayers and biblical rituals in full, publicly and collectively, especially in the eastern area of the mosque.
It also comes one day after 514 extremists stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards, including 403 settlers and 111 students from Jewish religious institutes, according to statistics from the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem.
They performed epic prostrations (the ritual of prostrating on the ground) and collective prayers, and danced and sang loudly inside the squares to mark the new Hebrew month. A rabbi also blew the shofar, a biblical ritual associated with the Hebrew New Year, which will fall on October 3.
Regarding the danger of carrying out this ritual specifically in the courtyards of the first of the two Qiblahs, researcher specializing in Jerusalem affairs, Ziad Abhais, said in a previous interview with Tel Aviv Tribune Net that this ritual indicates superiority and sovereignty, and is a sign of the beginning of a new era. It separates between the Hebrew years, and is the beginning of the Day of Judgment. Thus, in the view of the Temple groups, blowing the trumpet in Al-Aqsa separates between two eras: “the era of its Islamic identity, which they imagine has ended, and the era of its Judaization, which they think has begun,” according to the researcher in Jerusalem affairs.
Settlers perform loud dances, prayers and prostrations in #Al-Aqsa Mosque Mubarak after they secured themselves from popular and official deterrence in #Jerusalem..!
Shame on you.. It’s okay #Al-Aqsa On us..?!! pic.twitter.com/k7hoyVgRvR
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Jews worship freely
In addition to blowing the trumpet, extremist Temple groups have recently been singing through their pages and the pages of their activists on social media about “freedom of Jewish worship on the Temple Mount” since the ninth of August, corresponding to the 13th of August, which was the anniversary of the “destruction of the Temple.”
On this anniversary, 2,958 extremists stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning and evening periods. During their tours, they raised Israeli flags, performed the epic prostration ritual collectively, sang, danced and prayed. Among them was National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The extremist groups hailed the new gains they had made, and one of their activists, journalist Arnon Segal, said, “Since August 9, Jews have been praying on the Temple Mount freely and without being arrested.”
In an article published on August 30, he wrote, “Ben Gvir is currently succeeding where Rabbi Goren (the first rabbi to pray and blow the shofar inside Al-Aqsa) failed. The Jewish worship that has swept the Temple Mount since the ninth of Av (the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple) is a dramatic historical turning point that the holy place has not witnessed for at least a thousand years.”
The violations culminated last August with a government decision issued by the Ministry of Heritage, headed by Amihai Eliyahu, that settlers’ incursions into Al-Aqsa and settlers’ guided tours inside it would be funded by the ministry with a budget of 550 thousand US dollars.