Mufti of Al-Quds warns against Israeli violations

Amman, August 13, SPA -- Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, the Grand Mufti of
Al-Quds and Palestinian territories has warned against the Israeli
occupation authorities' old and new plan to build a Jewish temple
near the Holy Mosque of Al-Aqsa in Al-Quds City.

In a press statement published in Amman today, he said "The
Israeli authorities are persistent in demolishing the road to Bab
Al-Magharebah hill and building instead a bridge that will facilitate
offensive operations to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque by the occupation
authorities and settlers and that the Israelis did not refrain from
violating the Islamic sanctities, particularly the Holy Mosque of
Al-Aqsa.

He added that "The occupation authorities aimed to build a synagogue
in the yard of Al Buraq to be the nucleus of the alleged Temple
Mount, which the Jewish settlers and extremists seek to construct on
the Mosque ruins when it is finally demolished " pointing out that
such threats "are no longer just talk, but that Israeli authorities
had supported plans by Jewish extremists against Al Aqsa Mosque."

The Grand Mufti of Al-Quds appealed to the Arab States and the
Organization of Islamic Conference to intervene to "stop this
aggressive act which is targeting the very creed and civilization of
the Islamic nation."