OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands warned that the Israeli occupation regime is preparing nowadays for aggressive measures against the Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish passover festival that will start in mid-April.
Sheikh Khatib made his remarks during his talk in a televised interview with Al-Quds satellite channel on Friday about the recent events at the Aqsa Mosque and its exposure to daily Jewish desecration.
Sheikh Khatib said that serious escalation and tension might happen on April 14 the eve of the passover festival at the Aqsa Mosque compound but he stressed that the Israeli restrictions that would be imposed during the days of the Jewish festival would not prevent the Palestinians from defending their Mosque.
“The Zionist foundation should realize that our people and nation would never allow the Aqsa Mosque to be a temple” the Islamic Movement official underlined. “Our people is ready and on alert to fend off that evilness.”
“If the Arab regimes and the Palestinian Authority drift away from the national Arab and Islamic consensus we like to tell them that our people has a word to say and a position to show and they will never give up Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque” Sheikh Khatib stressed.
In another context the Hebrew newspaper Yerushalayim said on Friday that the Israeli municipal council in occupied Jerusalem intends to reduce the sound of adhan (prayer calls) at the city mosques at the pretext of preventing “noise” caused by loudspeakers.
The newspaper expressed its belief that this step if implemented would cause angry reactions among the Palestinian natives of Jerusalem adding that the Israeli municipality would use new technology to lower the mosque adhan in the holy city.
