The PA Awkaf (endowment) minister in Gaza Dr. Talib Abu Shaar has called on Muslim preachers in occupied Palestine and the Arab and Muslim world to dedicate the Friday sermon to expose the Israeli practices against the holy Aqsa Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem.
In a written statement, Abu Shaar deprecated the snowballing Israeli aggressions on the sanctity of the holy mosque, including the serious underground excavations the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was and still is carrying out near the Mosque.
He, however, stressed the important role of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem and those living in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands in defending the holy shrine, and hailed their insistence to head to and pray in the Mosque despite the IOA restrictions.
He also invited the Arab and Muslim leaders to take decisive and clear-cut stands to compel the IOA into changing its racist polices in the occupied Palestinian land, especially in Jerusalem.
The frequency of the Israeli atrocities against the Aqsa Mosque had rapidly increased recently, especially after the IOA rejected international calls to halt construction of settlements in the occupied city of Jerusalem and in the West Bank.
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