(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Islamic leader said in an interview with the Jordanian Al-Sabil newspaper that the Israeli institution, for the third year respectively, has allowed the settlers to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the holy month of Ramadan, and considered that a qualitative and serious development and a desecration of the Islamic sanctities.
Khatib strongly slammed the meeting held between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in light of the new Israeli Prawer project.
Meanwhile; the Israeli minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon said that the government gave permission to the Egyptian army to operate in Sinai in order to fight the Islamists there.
Ya'alon added that the Israeli government intends to allow more Egyptian military forces into Sinai in the coming period.
The Israeli Channel 7 website quoted Moshe Ya'alon as saying that "the Egyptian security system has been facing challenges in the Sinai due to Islamic extremist elements that have been attacking the army and police."
Egypt has recently submitted a formal request to the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv to send in more troops to the region. Ya’alon reviewed it, and approved it.
Ya'alon said: "As long as the Egyptians use those forces in fighting terrorism with our permission and without violating the peace agreement, we will of course allow them to fight the challenges posed by the Islamists in Sinai. At the time when their mission will end, the situation will certainly return as it was".
He revealed that there has been communication and coordination between the Israeli and the Egyptian security systems, at different levels.
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