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| December 12, 2013
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Hamas Minister: Israel Engineering an Earthquake to Attack Al-Aqsa

Hamas Minister of Religious Affairs warns the Muslim world that Israel is trying to collapse Al-Aqsa Mosque with ‘artificial earthquake’ as a reason to build third Temple.

By Dalit Halevi, Ari Yashar

 

Ismail Radwan, Minister of Religious Affairs in Gaza’s Hamas government, claims that Israel is trying to cause an artificial earthquake to totally collapse the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. According to Radwan, Israel is attempting to do so to establish the Third Temple.

The comments came at an event organized by female students of the College for Professional Applied Sciences. In response to the supposed “earthquake attack,” Radwan called for a general national enlistment to the military, and to support the mosque by having fixed presence at the site. Continue Reading »

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| December 11, 2013
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Muslim Academic Finds the Palestinians, Not Israel, Ruining the Temple Mount

Palestinian-Jordanian activists finds corrupt & indifferent Islamic authorities in charge of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, responsible for its deterioration. 

By Israel Today Staff

 

 

Writing for the Gatestone Institute, Palestinian academic Mudar Zahran discovers that it is local Islamic authorities, and not Israel, that are truly threatening the future of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

Palestinian protesters react during clashes on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's old city. - Photo REUTERS

Palestinian protesters react during clashes on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s old city. – Photo: REUTERS

Long have local Muslims accused Israel of trying to “Judaize”, destroy and cleanse the Islamic presence from the Temple Mount, which today is occupied by two large mosques, one of which, the Al Aqsa Mosque, is now claimed as Islam’s third holiest site. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2013
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Is Israel Really Destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque?

Is Al-Aqsa really a sacred site, or is it a tool to collect donations by trying to elicit global Islamic sympathy… just a goose that lays ‘golden eggs’ for its managers?

By Mudar Zahran

 

 

The Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, was built on the Temple Mount — which is the holiest site in Judaism, where the Temple that was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago stood.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. – Photo courtesy:: Godot13/WikiMedia Commons

The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been one of the items at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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| May 13, 2013
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Abbas Warns Israel Over the Temple Mount

“Eastern Jerusalem is our capital city, Al-Aqsa belongs to us, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre belongs to us, and we will not accept [the Israelis’] harassment.” warns PA Chairman.

By Elad Benari

The Palestinian Authority on Sunday sent a warning to Israel, over what it calls its attempts to harm the  on the Temple Mount.

Mahmoud Abbas - Photo Reuters

Mahmoud Abbas – Photo Reuters

Speaking during a meeting of the PLO’s Executive Committee, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that it is impossible to hold back in the wake of what he called the attacks by Israel on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria, in particular by local Jewish residents. Continue Reading »

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| August 23, 2012
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Once AGAIN, Abbas apparently denies Jewish link to Jerusalem

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas said that unabated attacks “under the nose of the Israeli occupation authorities” seek to “rob Muslims & Christians of their holy shrines, destroy Al-Aqsa mosque and build the alleged Jewish Temple.”

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

A “series” of attacks on the Temple Mount “under the nose of the Israeli occupation authorities” seek “to rob Muslims and Christians of their holy shrines, destroy Al-Aqsa mosque and build the alleged Jewish Temple,” according to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Al-Aqsa mosque – Photo: Phillip Pasmanick

Al-Aqsa mosque – Photo: Phillip Pasmanick

In a statement issued to mark the 43rd anniversary of an arson attack on Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Abbas said that the third holiest shrine in Islam is still under threat.

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| August 22, 2012
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Warning to Israel: Harming Al-Aqsa Will Open Gates of Hell

The PRC terrorist orgs threatens Israel against harming the Al-Aqsa mosque.

By Elad Benari

 

The Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization threatened Israel on Tuesday, warning it that any harm to the Al-Aqsa mosque would “open the gates of hell against the Zionist enemy.”

Al-Aqsa mosque – Photo: Phillip Pasmanick

 

In a statement the organization issued, it stressed its commitment to protecting the dignity of the mosque, which it claimed is being “contaminated by the Zionists”, through the masses of the Islamic nation which has started waking up and meeting its religious commitment towards “Palestine” and towards the Al-Aqsa mosque. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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Jewish settlers enter the Temple Mount under protection of security forces

Jewish Israelis nearly came to blows with Muslims attending the midday prayers at the mosque.

 

More than 120 Jewish settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning. Al-Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowments and Heritage said that several groups of illegal settlers entered the Noble Sanctuary from Al-Magharebeh Gate and spread around the compound in several places. There, it is reported, they established religious study circles and performed a number of prayers.

Jewish settlers enter Al-Aqsa Mosque under protection of security forces

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Witnesses who took video and still photographs of this latest incursion at Al-Aqsa Mosque said that the settlers were protected by heavily armed Israeli security officers. The settlers nearly came to blows with Muslims attending the midday prayers at the mosque. Continue Reading »

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