AMMAN — Israeli occupation forces are
obstructing several significant projects at
Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, as Jordan
repeatedly voiced it rejection of Israeli intervention in a historically Muslim
site designated for Muslim prayers, a top mosque official said.
اضافة اعلان
Jordan has categorically rejected intervention by
the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) and repeatedly voiced its refusal of
IAA regulations to be enforced inside the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third holiest
shrine after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Historically, Jordan is recognized as the custodian
of Muslim and Christian holy shrines in
East Jerusalem, which Israel captured
in the 1967 Middle East war.
Al-Mamlaka TV
said Azzam Al-Khateeb, director of the Islamic Waqf, or Religious Endowment,
and Al-Aqsa Affairs in Jerusalem, asserted that the Israeli occupying forces
are disrupting the work of his department and its reconstruction projects in
Al-Aqsa.
Khateeb spoke of the damage caused by Israeli incursions
into Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy fasting month of
Ramadan, which included
breaking glass windows and destroying doors.
“There are many big projects in the mosque that are
obstructed by the occupation,” he said.
Bassam Al-Hallaq, head of the mosque’s
Reconstruction Projects, said refurbishment “may take three to four years to
bring the place back to how it used to be”.
“We have not dealt, we cannot deal, and we do not
allow the Israeli antiquities department to interfere in the affairs of Islamic
Waqf,” Halaq insisted.
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