Temple Mount is a "purely Islamic inalienable religious endowment" claims PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge
Headline: “Al-Habbash in response to Bennett: The Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours, the Al-Buraq Wall is ours, and the occupation is the real terror”
“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 – with all its plazas, courtyards, and its full territory (144 dunams) [parentheses in source], including the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) – is a purely Islamic waqf (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law; see note below). He added that non-Muslims have no right to it, according to a divine decision and as is stated in Sura [17] of the Night Journey in the Quran. He also said that this [Islamic] right was emphasized by the international resolutions that the League of Nations issued in 1930 (apparently refers to 1930 Shaw Commission Report -Ed.), UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1948 (see note below -Ed.), and also all of UNESCO’s (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) resolutions on the matter.
In response to [Israeli] occupation Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s statements on the matter of ‘Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and supervision of its holy sites,’ Al-Habbash said: ‘The occupation state has no religious, historical, or legal legitimacy in the holy city [of Jerusalem]. It is a colonialist and illegal occupying power that is crouching over our Palestinian land, implementing terror, and committing crimes against the Palestinian people and its holy sites.’ He added that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain Islamic-Palestinian, and that in the end the occupation will pass from the world.
The supreme Shari’ah judge emphasized that the occupation is the real terror… and that resistance to the occupation is a legitimate right that is anchored in all the international conventions for the oppressed peoples who are bowing under occupation and colonialism…
He noted that the occupation’s recurring attempts to establish cultural or religious evidence of any kind that would prove its connection to the city have suffered total failure (sic., an abundance of evidence proves Jewish history in Jerusalem), and that it has nothing other than lies and fabricated falsehoods devoid of any tangible proof.”