PA Foreign Ministry: Trump’s policies encourage Israeli extremists “to implement more Judaization plans against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque… to destroy it and build the so-called Temple in its place”
Headline: "[PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The adoption of the occupation's narrative by the US encourages the extremists to do as they please with the Al-Aqsa Mosque"
"The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said that the posts that the so-called 'Temple' organizations have posted on social media – in which they revealed that they have submitted a request to Israeli Minister of Public Security [Gilad Erdan] to extend the times of invading the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque (a request was made that the Temple Mount be open to Jews on Tisha B'Av and for longer hours than usual; see notes below –Ed.) [and to allow the invasions] through all of the gates and not only through the Mughrabi Gate… – are a very grave matter…
The ministry emphasized that [US President Donald] Trump's decisions regarding Jerusalem (i.e., the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the transfer of the US embassy there; see note below) and the international community’s silence… are whetting the appetite of the extremists in Israel to implement more Judaization plans against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and to try and impose Israeli sovereignty over it – if not to destroy it and build the so-called Temple in its place."
Temple organizations Preceding the Tisha B'Av fast in August 2019, the Students for the Temple Mount organization petitioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan, and the commanders of the Jerusalem district police to open the Temple Mount on Tisha B' Av, and for longer hours than usual.
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