The Deputy Director of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Council Sheikh Najeh Bakirat has revealed that Israel has installed CCTV cameras to monitor the movements of Jerusalemites.
In a press statement on Saturday Sheikh Bakirat stressed that installing security cameras aims at facilitating arresting Jerusalemites in addition to restricting Muslim worshippers’ access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the holy month of Ramadan.
“Israel aims at changing the Islamic identity of Jerusalem by facilitating Jewish settlers’ raids into Al-Aqsa Mosque and imposing restrictions on Muslim worshippers” Sheikh Bakirat affirmed.
For his part Deputy Head of Hamas’s Political Bureau Saleh al-Arouri underlined in a statement a few days ago that the Israeli occupation attempts to impose spatial and temporal division on the Al-Aqsa Mosque by allowing settlers to perform Talmudic rituals in its courtyards in the holy month of Ramadan.
Earlier today Israeli police stormed the Bab Hitta area attacking Palestinian youths who were decorating the area in anticipation of the holy month of Ramadan.
Extremist Jewish groups had called for participating in massive raids into the Al-Aqsa Mosque next April to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover which coincides with the third week of Ramadan.
