PA top official: Temple Mount "is Islamic only to which non-Muslims have no right – not the Jews nor anyone else"
Headline: “Al-Habbash: The Al-Aqsa Mosque is an Islamic mosque only”
“[PA] Supreme Shari’ah Judge of Palestine and [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas’] Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash said that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is an Islamic mosque only to which non-Muslims have no right – not the Jews nor anyone else.
In a statement he issued this evening, Sunday [April 17, 2022], Al-Habbash emphasized that the [Israeli] government of settlers in the occupation state is adding fuel to the fire and attempting in all ways to cause an explosion of the situation in Jerusalem, out of a desire to impose a new situation on the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount). This situation includes a division [of the mosque between Jews and Muslims] according to times and areas and a change of the status quo, in order to serve the process of Judaization and the plans to empty the holy city [of Jerusalem] of the Palestinians, its original owners and residents.
He emphasized that our people will defend Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque at the height of determination for the sake of justice and to defend the honor.He also said that the occupation’s plans will fail as they have failed in the past, and that this occupation will pass from our city and from our Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In response to statements issued by the office of [Israeli] occupation Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, according to which Jews will be permitted to visit the Noble Sanctuary and carry out Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) prayers there (sic., Jews were not given permission to pray at the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism), Al-Habbash emphasized that these statements constitute insistence on causing an escalation and a continuation of aggression in order to commit additional crimes against those carrying out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) and the worshippers at the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary.”