PA minister: Israel is “striving to harm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque… in order to establish its alleged Temple on its ruins”
Headline: "A Palestinian minister: The Israeli occupation is striving for the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque"
"[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is said that the situation in the holy city [of Jerusalem] and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque has become very dangerous in light of the fact that the Israeli occupation authorities are continuing their racist acts and Judaization operations against the mosque and the city.
Ida'is added in exclusive statements to the [United Arab Emirates news website] 24: 'The Israeli government is striving to harm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, to carry out the plan for the division [of the mosque] according to areas, and afterwards to destroy it, in order to establish its alleged Temple on its ruins.' He emphasized that Israel is attempting to create facts on the ground.
Ida'is clarified that the racist acts of the Israeli occupation are meant to erase the historical Arab and Islamic presence in occupied Jerusalem, ahead of implementing all of its settlement and colonialist plans against occupied Jerusalem."