AMMAN — On Sunday,
August 21, 2022, marked the 53rd anniversary of the burning of
Al-Aqsa Mosque
by an Australian zealot, Denis Michael Rohan.
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In 1969, Rohan
deliberately set fire to the mosque’s historic Salahuddin pulpit. The fire then
spread to other parts of the building. Palestinian fire engines from Ramallah,
Bethlehem, and Hebron rushed to contain the flames.
On the following
day, thousands of
Muslims performed Friday prayers in the outer courtyard of
Al-Aqsa Mosque, and then demonstrations swept occupied East Jerusalem in
protest. In the aftermath of the fire, the first Islamic summit conference was
held in Rabat, Morocco.
This Sunday,
dozens of extremist Jewish settlers broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram
Al-Sharif complex in occupied
East Jerusalem, the Jordan News Agency, Petra,
reported.
The Ministry of
Awqaf and Religious Affairs said in a statement that Sunday’s raid was
conducted through Al-Mughrabi Gate by successive groups under the heavy
protection of Israeli special police, who restricted Muslim worshippers’ access
to the mosque and seized identification cards.
The settlers
performed Talmudic rituals, provocatively toured the mosque’s yards, and
listened to explanations about the purported “Temple Mount”, it added.
Meanwhile,
preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque and the head of the Supreme Islamic Authority in
Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, warned Sunday of the growing threats to Al-Aqsa
Mosque, resulting from excavations and continued incursions by Jewish settlers,
and pointed to continued violations, harassment, and confiscation of
Jerusalemites’ identity cards by the occupation authorities.
In an interview with
Al-Ghad News, Sabri called on the Arab and Islamic countries, and the Arab
League, to lend support to the Hashemite custodianship to confront Israeli
violations.
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