PA Minister instructs PA preachers to speak about how "the Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours and our prisoners are the foundations of our national enterprise"
Headline: “Ida’is in instructions to Friday preachers: The Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours and our prisoners are the foundations of our national enterprise”
“[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Sheikh Yusuf Ida’is yesterday [Feb. 20, 2019] instructed the preachers of Palestine to speak during the coming Friday sermon about the theft of the Palestinian people’s money, which the occupation government intends to carry out on pretexts that contradict the international and humanitarian conventions and the political and economic agreements (refers to implementation of Israeli law to deduct terrorist salaries from PA tax money; see note below and notes on claims the law breaches international conventions and agreements –Ed.).
He emphasized that the position of the Palestinian leadership – which is represented by [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision on the matter (i.e., his decision not to receive any tax money if any is deducted) – isclear proof of the importance of the prisoners and their family members in our national enterprise and in the policy of the Palestinian [PA] government, which is making every effort to support the prisoners…
Ida’is also demanded that the preachers speak about the Jerusalem residents’ resolve in defending the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and as part of this, its gates, its plazas, its facilities, and its 144 dunams (i.e., approximately 35.6 acres).He emphasized that it is necessary to explain the danger of the attack on the Gate of Mercy and the activity to turn it into a synagogue where the settler gangs will hold their Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) prayers (sic., Israel closed a compound near the Gate of Mercy after the Jordanian Waqf reopened it in breach of a court order, there are no plans to turn the site into a synagogue; see note below)…
He demanded that the preachers send a firm message through Palestine’s mosques to the occupation government: The Palestinian people will not continue to be silent about the severe violations of our sovereignty over the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and will resist all of the occupation’s steps.”
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