Abu Qteish: Desecration of Ibrahimi Mosque and Incitement to Build Temple in Aqsa's Place Require Islamic Action
Abu Qteish warns against the desecration of the Ibrahimi Mosque and incitement to build the Temple in place of Al-Aqsa, calling for urgent Islamic action to protect the holy sites.
Majed Abu Qteish, a leader in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that settlers’ storming of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron and their violation of its sanctity, coinciding with its closure to Palestinian worshippers, constitutes a grave assault on Islamic holy sites and a violation of freedom of worship, and comes within the framework of the occupation’s policy aimed at imposing Judaization facts on Palestinian holy sites.
Abu Qteish added that these violations coincide with the occupation’s escalation of its repressive measures against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, as it pursues and banishes the mosque’s preachers because of the content of their sermons or their prayers for Muslims, at a time when it opens the way for rabbis and extremists to storm it and make inflammatory statements from inside it.
He pointed out that allowing these people to issue calls to establish the so-called “Temple” in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to publicly incite its demolition, reveals a systematic occupation policy aimed at changing the religious and historical identity of the mosque, and provides protection for extremist groups to proceed with their plans.
Abu Qteish stressed that the targeting of the Ibrahimi and Al-Aqsa mosques requires urgent Palestinian, Arab and Islamic action to protect the holy sites and confront plans to Judaize them, and to strengthen presence and steadfastness in them, emphasizing that these violations will not grant the occupation any legitimacy to change their identity or undermine their Islamic status.
