Eye on Jerusalem discusses the Israeli occupation's attempt to Judaize Al-Aqsa
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The Eye on Jerusalem program, broadcast by Jordanian Television on Monday, discussed the reality of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which faces a significant threat of Judaization by the Israeli occupation authorities, amid escalating incursions by Jewish extremists during the Jewish "New Year" and the beginning of the Jewish holidays.
According to the program's report prepared in Jerusalem, journalists found no place other than the Mount of Olives to cover the incursions carried out by extremist Jewish groups in Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the occasion of the "Hebrew New Year," after the Israeli occupation police prevented them from approaching even the Old City, noting that the extremists themselves documented scenes of the incursion into the mosque and the violation of its sanctity, and the performance of Jewish religious rituals in its courtyards, and published them on social media.
The report added that hundreds of settlers are carrying out incursions into the mosque under the protection of the occupation police, amid calls by extremist Jewish groups to intensify the incursions and perform Talmudic rituals inside Al-Aqsa, in what Khalil Asali, a member of the Jerusalem Endowment Council, described as "preparation for what will happen during the next two weeks in the successive Jewish holidays," which will have a significant impact on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Jerusalem street, which fears that these groups will take steps that no one expected, which "may change the reality in Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem completely," amid absolute Arab and Islamic silence.
The report also pointed out that the occupation police prevented worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa during the incursions and handed out more than 800 orders to prevent entry to Jerusalemites from the mosque before the start of the Jewish holidays, including guards and employees of the Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem, and the expulsions this year were characterized by including all age groups.
For his part, member of the Jerusalem Endowment Council and President of the Supreme Islamic Authority in Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, said that the current Israeli right-wing government is heading towards pleasing the Israeli street, which tends towards extremism and bigotry, and that it has an agenda in "dominance over Al-Aqsa Mosque," adding that this extreme right wants to achieve achievements with the approach of the Israeli elections for fear of leaving the government.
He stressed that the Hashemite custodianship is the "safety valve" for the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and that the Jerusalemites are standing in the first line in defending these holy sites, calling on the Arab and Islamic Christian nation to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque and support the steadfastness of the Jerusalemites, starting from the call of our Prophet to tighten the reins to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
He pointed out that the Jerusalemites are committed to staying in their land and homes because the battle with the occupation is a "battle of existence," and that the occupation threatens to deport them as part of its expansionist criminal goals.
Sheikh Sabri warned that the politicians leading the occupying state are originally "secularists," but they are using the Jewish religion to empower themselves and achieve the dreams of the so-called "Greater Israel," and described the city of Jerusalem as a "big prison" because it has been isolated from the rest of the Palestinian areas since the Gaza and Iran war, where they took control of all entrances to the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
For his part, the head of the Jerusalem body against Judaization, Nasser Al-Hadmi, said that the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque did not come in months or a few years, but it is the accumulation of long years of Arab and Islamic retreat, in contrast to the planning carried out by the occupation for decades.
He pointed out that what the occupation did in the Ibrahimi Shrine was a case of "testing the pulse" of what it plans to do in Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite knowing the importance and specificity of Al-Aqsa for the Palestinians and the Islamic nation, as it constitutes their creed.
He confirmed that the occupation authorities are seeking to fully control Al-Aqsa, pointing out that the extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, insists in every incursion into Al-Aqsa Mosque to speak and say that he wants to see the whole world who is the owner of the house, in reference to the issue of sovereignty, which is a complex for the occupation, whether in relation to Al-Aqsa or the city of Jerusalem.
Al-Hadmi called for a clear Arab, Islamic, and international discourse based on the eternal religious right to this place, which still expresses its Islamic identity, and completely rejects the occupation's claims of its right to it, emphasizing the right of every Muslim to visit Al-Aqsa and pray in it, considering it the third mosque and the first of the two Qiblahs.
For his part, the expert on Israeli affairs, Ihab Jbarain, said that there is a systematic vision among the Israeli extreme right represented by trying to practice their religious doctrine and ideology and using it for their colonial plans, warning that Netanyahu's government is trying to exploit this period to try to establish field bases for this ideology so that the next government, if it is right-wing, can rely on it.
