AL-KHALIL (PIC)– Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi the chief Justice of Palestine and chairman of the Supreme Judicial council has strongly condemned the closure of Jerusalem by the IOA beofre Palestinians which turned its streets into military posts and took unprecedented arbitrary measures against the Palestinian worshipers who wanted to pray in the Aqsa Mosque.
IOA had intensified the IOF troops’ number in the Jerusalem and in the military barbed wired checkpoints and barred men under age 45 and women under age 35 from entering the holy city without permits.
Tamimi also denounced the IOA’s resolution to close down the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al Khalil southern West Bank in the face of Palestinian worshipers at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan for several days at unacceptable pretexts.
The chief justice highlighted the Islamism of the Aqsa and Ibrahimi mosques which only belong to Muslims including their plazas denying any kind of relationship for the Jews with the two mosques.
The chief justice considered the Israeli arbitrary measures against Jerusalem Al-Khalil and the Aqsa and Ibrahimi mosques as a flagrant violation of human rights and freedom of worship guaranteed by divine laws and international conventions pointing out that these measures put obstacles in the way of efforts to establish peace and security in the region.
In the same context the IOA prevented MP Mustafa Al-Barghouthi the secretary-general of the Palestinian national initiative party from entering Jerusalem to perform the Friday prayer in the Aqsa Mosque.
In a statement sent to different media outlets Barghouthi confirmed that the IOF troops at the outskirts of Jerusalem returned him many times despite his repeated attempts to cross the barriers deployed by the IOF troops around the city.
He added that barring him from performing Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque refutes the IOA’s allegations that it allowed those over age 50 years old to enter Jerusalem and that it imposed some facilities on the entry of elderly people from the West Bank to Jerusalem.
