PA Ministry warns of "a religious war" after falsely accusing Israel of "violating and desecrating Al-Aqsa Mosque"

Headline: “Extensive condemnation of the occupation’s invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and calls to provide international protection to our people”

“The [PA] Ministry of Religious Affairs said that the general violation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the desecration of the Southern Mosque (i.e., the Al-Aqsa Mosque itself), the breaking of its windows, and entering it with shoes, along with harming the peaceful Muslim worshippers inside it (sic., refers to violent Arab rioters on the Temple Mount), are a push towards a religious war. The ministry added: ‘What the occupation government committed comes as a realization of its settler outlook that strives to take control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque with all its plazas, structures, and mosques, and in order to satisfy the settlers who are working day and night to take control over it and carry out their Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) rituals that call to offer sacrifices in order to establish their alleged Temple, which all the antiquities committees have denied its existence in the borders of the Al-Aqsa Mosque (sic., an abundance of archaeological evidence proves Jewish history in Jerusalem, including the Jewish Temples).”