The Directorate of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf revealed on Friday that the Israeli occupation authorities have rejected and prevented the implementation of its choice to extend the variety of guards at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani defined: “Occupation authorities are continuously in search of to deport and arrest the guards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, particularly in mild of the rise in almost daily incursions by settlers to Al-Aqsa Mosque, and their makes an attempt to carry out Talmudic rituals and prayers.”
In an unique assertion to Arabi21, he pressured: “The violations by the occupation authorities and extremists are persevering with in opposition to Al-Aqsa Mosque. The occupation is attempting to impose new insurance policies in opposition to Al-Aqsa Mosque, to create a brand new actuality.”
Because of the anticipated enhance within the variety of settlers that will raid Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Kiswani shared: “There’s a choice to extend the variety of guards and workers, in coordination with the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs”.
He indicated: “There are interventions (by the occupation) to stop the guards who had been employed or re-employed by these beforehand contracted in 2017. The occupation authorities threatened to arrest the brand new guards if they begin their job.”
He considers that the practices of the occupation authorities are: “A blatant interference within the affairs of Islamic Awqaf. This matter has been reported to the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, and it’s addressing the matter with the Jordanian Ministry of Overseas Affairs – that is what we had been promised.”
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The Director of the Directorate of Jerusalem Islamic Waqf warned: “The directorate is eager that the guards of Al-Aqsa Mosque are to not be arrested or attacked by the occupation.”
“The Directorate of Jerusalem Islamic Waqf is finishing up its responsibility in the direction of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and preserving its Islamic and Arab id, regardless that the value for which may be excessive, which is the deportation and arresting of Al-Aqsa guards, the expulsion of workers and the restriction on the Directorate of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf,” he knowledgeable Arabi21.
He pressured that every one occupation measures: “Won’t deter us from fulfilling our responsibility in the direction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and preserving it, in mild of the fierce assault of the occupation in opposition to it.”
The official of the Directorate of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf expressed his deep remorse over the state of: “Failure of the Arab and Islamic place in the direction of what is occurring in Al-Aqsa, which is a stance that sadly doesn’t assist the place of the directorate in dealing with the fierce assault on Al-Aqsa and makes an attempt to Judaise it, and the rejection of the de facto coverage by pressure of occupation and weapons.”
Al-Quds Worldwide Establishment confirmed: “The focusing on of Al-Aqsa guards and Directorate of Jerusalem Islamic Waqf workers by the occupation goals to finish the presence of the Islamic Awqaf, to impose the occupation’s administration of Al-Aqsa, to monopolise the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to imagine management over it as a substitute of the Islamic Awqaf.”
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Al-Quds Worldwide Establishment expressed its shock in an announcement acquired by Arabi21 that the repeated assaults by the occupation in opposition to the guards of Al-Aqsa and the workers of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf: “Handed with none remark or official Jordanian place at any degree.”
The establishment warned: “The prevalence of such aggression with none response would tempt the occupation with better aggression, and it’s a harmful indication concerning the retreat of the official cowl for Al-Aqsa Mosque, at a time when it’s uncovered to an existential menace focusing on its id.”
