Abbas salutes rioting Palestinians “carrying out Ribat” at the Al-Aqsa Mosque “in light of the constant Israeli violations against Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites”
Headline: “The [PA] president spoke by telephone with the mufti of Jerusalem and salutes the resolve of the Murabitin at the Al-Aqsa Mosque – the president condemns the Israeli raids and attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and warns against their dangerous consequences”
“[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas spoke by telephone yesterday evening [Feb. 19, 2019] with [PA] Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories [and Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council Chairman] Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.
The mufti briefed President Abbas on the difficult situation at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque as a result of the occupation forces breaking into its plazas and the attacks on the worshippers and Murabitin (i.e., those carrying out Ribat, religious conflict/war to protect land claimed to be Islamic), which caused the wounding and arrest of dozens of members of our people carrying out Ribat (refers to arrest of Muslim rioters at the Temple Mount; see note below –Ed.).
The president saluted the resolve of the members of our people carrying out Ribat at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque’s plazas in light of the constant Israeli violations against Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites…
The [PA] Presidential Office said that these actions are part of a systematic Israeli policy to exert pressure on our people and its leadership, in a failed attempt to prevent it from adhering to the national principles, and due to its opposition to the deal of the century (refers to US President Donald Trump’s as yet unpublished Middle East peace deal –Ed.). It added that the attacks on our people and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, in addition to the latest racist decision to steal the allowances of the Martyrs and prisoners from the Palestinian tax revenues (refers to implementation of Israeli law to deduct terrorist salaries from PA tax money; see note below –Ed.), blow up all of the signed agreements between the two sides…
The Presidential Office warned against the dangerous consequences of these actions and attacks continuing, which heralds a deterioration of the situation and the region being sent into a religious conflict with a bad and bitter end.”
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