PA official claims that a "Zionist gang" set fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969
Ibrahim Mudayris, Official, PA Ministry of Religious Trusts and Religious Affairs: "On this day the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque was subjected to the cursed fire by the treachery of the Zionist oppressors . . . On August 21st, 1969, it was set afire by a Zionist gang.”