Fatah: Don’t let Jews “defile Al-Aqsa Mosque”

Official PA TV News

Fatah Jerusalem Branch member Ahed Al-Rishq: “We say to our Palestinian people everywhere that they should direct their steps to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and come to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in very large numbers so as not to give the occupation government and the settler gangs an opportunity to defile the purest place in the world, to defile the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque… A number of days ago we saw how the Nazi occupation government attacked those fortifying in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, how it attacked the elderly, the young, the children, and the lauded women in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and arrested more than 400 of them (refers to Israeli forces removing Arab rioters who had barricaded inside the mosque with rocks and fireworks, which they threw and fired at the forces -Ed.), but the next day we saw thousands of people fortifying in the Al-Aqsa Mosque…

At the least, after what happened a number of days ago, the [Arab] states that have Israeli ambassadors need to expel the Israeli ambassador there and recall their ambassadors who are in the entity that is occupying our land from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”

[Official PA TV News, April 8, 2023]