Israeli extremist MK submits draft proposal to divide al-Aqsa

The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH), active in the defense of holy Islamic sites in 48 occupied Palestine, said extremist MK Miri Regev, from the ruling Likud Party and Knesset internal committee chairwoman, submitted a draft bill calling to officially divide al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews.

The Foundation revealed in a press statement on Tuesday the law proposes an authorized adoption of a temporal and spatial division of al-Aqsa Mosque of the kind imposed by the Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) in the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied al-Khalil against the will of all Palestinians.

"Such a draft proposal is a bad omen and has serious implications for Al-Aqsa, which has been increasingly targeted by IOA,” Aqsa Foundation revealed.

“Al-Aqsa Mosque covers on overall area of 144 dunums. History proves that it has and will forever be Muslims’ one and only home,” AFEH further maintains. “Neither Regev’s nor anybody else’s proposals shall ever see the day. All Islamic, Arab and Palestinian masses have to assume their responsibilities vis-à-vis holy al-Aqsa Mosque.”

According to the Foundation, the IOA has been provocatively manipulating prayer times and spaces in favor of Jews at the Ibrahimi mosque, particularly but not exclusively, during Jewish holidays and celebrations.

“The so-called Regev proposal is a flagrant call to desecration break-ins watched over by Israeli laws. Penalties for attempts to protect al-Aqsa from such blatant offenses were put at 50-thousand-shekel fines (around 15 thousand dollars), ironically, shelled out to the Jewish desecrator.

According to Regev the law will be granted constitutional immunity and cannot, in any possible way, be called off under emergency laws.

AFEH spoke against the serious implications of the division bill on holy Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has increasingly been made by IOA into a favorable terrain for Israeli vandalism as opposed to the absurdly forced entry-bans targeting the Muslim congregation.

The Foundation called on the Muslim and Arab masses to rally round al-Aqsa and stage more sit-ins inside it as a means to save the Mosque from Israeli sacrilege plots.

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