Overseas Ministry calls on worldwide group to take care of ‘incitement’ to destroy the holy web site significantly.
The Palestinian authorities has expressed “excessive concern” over threats circulating amongst Israeli settler organisations to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Ministry of Overseas Affairs and Expatriates warned on Saturday of calls by Israeli settler organisations circulating on Hebrew-language social media platforms to assault and demolish the mosque and assemble a temple instead.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest web site and an emblem of Palestinian id, has grow to be symbolic of the intensified stress between Muslims and Jews amid Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
An Al-generated video depicting the destruction of the mosque and development of the “Third Temple” underneath the title “Subsequent Yr in Jerusalem,” was revealed on the platforms earlier this week.
In a press release revealed on X, the ministry stated it considers the posts on social media a “systematic incitement to escalate the concentrating on of Christian and Islamic holy websites in occupied Jerusalem”.
“The Ministry calls on the worldwide group and its related UN establishments to take care of this incitement with utmost seriousness, and to take the measures required by worldwide regulation,” it stated.
Common goal
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is run by Jordan, however entry to the location itself is managed by Israeli troopers.
Al-Aqsa has grow to be a daily goal of visits by right-wing Israeli politicians and Israeli settlers, who’ve stormed the compound on an virtually weekly foundation and carried out non secular rituals underneath the safety of Israeli forces.
The compound can also be thought-about an essential web site by Jews, who consider it to be the location of the First and Second Temples, the latter destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
Underneath the decades-old establishment maintained by Israeli authorities, Jews and different non-Muslims are allowed to go to the compound in occupied East Jerusalem throughout specified hours, however they aren’t permitted to hope there or show non secular symbols.
Final August, right-wing Israeli Nationwide Safety Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir prompted outrage by saying he would construct a Jewish synagogue on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
As soon as thought-about a fringe motion, the marketing campaign to construct a “Third Temple” on Al-Aqsa is rising in Israel, and plenty of Palestinians see parallels with what has occurred in Hebron, the place the Ibrahimi Mosque, also referred to as the Cave of the Patriarchs, was partitioned.
Since taking workplace in December 2022, Ben-Gvir, as nationwide safety minister, has visited the holy web site no less than six occasions, drawing extreme condemnation.
