OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage revealed that the Israeli occupation on Tuesday installed cctv cameras to monitor the Aqsa Mosque especially from the side of the Maghareba Gate.
The organisation condemned in a statement on Wednesday this serious step by the occupation pointing out that the occupation authorities aim to restrict and intimidate worshippers inside the Aqsa Mosque stressing that Muslims will continue to keep a constant presence in the mosque to defend it.
Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib head of the Jerusalem Awqaf stressed that this was a serious precedent which is rejected and the cameras must be removed immediately.
He added: “We are following the matter. I official wrote to the police telling them that what they did was a serious precedent and the cameras must be immediately removed.”
The Aqsa Foundation said that occupation technicians on Tuesday installed two cameras above the Maghareba gate a position from which a large area of the Aqsa Mosque can be monitored.
