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IOA restricts entry of Muslim worshippers into Aqsa Mosque

Thursday 16-April-2009

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority has decided to bar entry of Palestinians into the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday while only Arabs with Israeli IDs over 50 would be allowed along with women the army radio reported.

The broadcast said on Wednesday evening that hundreds of policemen would be deployed in the vicinity of the holy site and the Old City with the aim to protect Jewish fanatic groups which aim at organizing an unprecedented march to the Aqsa Mosque.

The radio said that the measure was taken to ward off possible “disturbance” during that march especially when Palestinians in the 1948 occupied lands had declared intention to send thousands to protect the Aqsa Mosque.

Kamal Al-Khatib the deputy leader of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied Palestine which organizes the travel of Palestinian Muslims to the Aqsa Mosque asserted in a press statement that the Muslim worshipers would flock to the Aqsa Mosque to offer usual daily prayers in peace.

He warned however that if the Israeli police allowed those fanatic Jews into the holy Islamic site they (police) would shoulder the responsibility of what happens.

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