AhlulBayt News Agency - The Jordanian popular committee for defending the Aqsa Mosque and sacred places refused installing cameras at the Aqsa Mosque and called on the Jordanian government to cancel the project.
The Jordanian ministry of Awqaf a few days ago embarked on preparation works to install 55 cameras at the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque according to the Jordanian Minister of Awqaf Hayel Daoud.
The committee’s head Abdulla Ebaidat said, in a statement on Wednesday, that over the past few weeks, statements by Jordanian ministers were repeated that surveillance cameras will be installed at the holy site regardless of the large-scale refusal among Palestinians in general and Jerusalemites in particular as well as among large segments of Jordanian people and regardless of the risky consequences of such a move which will be used for the interest of the Israeli occupation.
The statement called for reconsidering the decision since putting cameras at the Aqsa’s plazas will allow Israelis to use them as evidence to convict Jerusalemites who defend the Aqsa Mosque from settlers' repeated incursions and attempts to perform Talmudic rituals at the holy site.
He pointed out that Israeli leaders made statements on several occasions declaring their intention to use the cameras for identifying the defenders of the Aqsa Mosque and for protecting settlers while storming the Muslims’ holy place.
Ebaidat said that Israeli leaders are keen to install the cameras before the Jewish Passover holiday, and slammed the Jordanian government for insisting to have the cameras installed before that exact time.
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