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Al-Kiswani: Grave danger awaits Al-Aqsa Mosque
The director of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Omar Al-Kiswani, said in a press release on Saturday that there is a “grave danger” facing the mosque from the southern and western sides due to the Israeli occupation excavations.
Al-Kiswani said that the Israeli occupation must stop the excavations immediately, and for the Arab and Islamic world to use their role to ban the excavations.
Al-Kiswani added that these excavations disregard the submissions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations resolutions concerning the Old City, Al-Aqsa Mosque, the land of Al-Buraq Square, and the Umayyad palaces that belong to the Islamic endowments and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Kiswani believed that the pilgrimage to Al-Aqsa Mosque and the presence in its courtyards, corridors, and mosques by Palestinians give a message to the occupation that Al-Aqsa Mosque is a pure right of Muslims.
“Palestinians do not accept division and partnership and that the large presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque dispels the plans and narratives that the Israeli occupation wants to impose through incursions and excavations,” he said.
He called on the Arab and Islamic countries to support the Jordanian role in immediately stopping the excavations that pose a threat to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Kiswani added, “If something happens to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, it may lead to a religious war. We do not know where it will reach.”
He clarified that the stone that fell recently in the southern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to Al-Buraq Square, which is the wall of the Islamic Museum and part of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, is being held by the Israeli occupation authorities, who did not permit it to be returned to its place.
He said, “There have been excavations for five years and continued in the area of the Umayyad palaces to expand the so-called Al-Buraq Square in order for extremists and Jews to perform their prayers at the Al-Buraq Wall, as well as the western side adjacent to the Umayyad palaces.”
Al-Kiswani asserted, that “large” excavations that took place in the Umayyad palaces and adjacent to the bases of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and have been going on for a long time, but recently affected the stones of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque from the outside, and led to damages in some stones from the western side adjacent to the Umayyad castles, in addition to the fall of a stone before 5 years on the southern side of the wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and adjacent to Al-Buraq Square.
