PA religious council calls on Muslims to "use all means available" to protect holy places from "Judaization"
“The [Palestinian] Supreme Fatwa Council warned of the sparking of a religious war in Gaza, which would consume everything in our region and several other regions of the world, as a result of the increase in the rate of attacks and violations [committed] against the Palestinian people and its holy places, the most recent of which was the call of extremist Jewish organizations to invade the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, burn down the Al-Huda Mosque in the village of Jab’a west of Bethlehem and the Greek Orthodox church in Jerusalem, in addition to the intention of the so-called ‘prime minister’ of the occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, to invade the Ibrahimi Mosque (i.e., Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron on the tenth of the present month… It [the Council] placed responsibility for the results of these violations and provocations on the occupation authorities, clarifying that the Palestinian nation would not sit idly by in the face of the racist attacks that are harming its holy places, its land and its own [people].
The Council also condemned the blind and unjust killing in the name of Islam, clarifying that Islam is a religion of mercy and compassion that prohibits violence and murder and opposes the sanctioning of unjustified and legally unrestrained [spilling of] blood. The Council called on the Arab and Muslim nations to do their utmost to defend the Palestinian holy places, which are going up in flames of desecration and Judaization; for they have no choice but [to engage in] fervent activity using all means available to them in order to protect the purity of the holy places and prevent the vigorous attempts to desecrate, falsify and Judaize them, before it is too late.
This [statement was made] during the 125th session of the Supreme Fatwa Council headed by [PA] Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, Council Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.”
The Council also condemned the blind and unjust killing in the name of Islam, clarifying that Islam is a religion of mercy and compassion that prohibits violence and murder and opposes the sanctioning of unjustified and legally unrestrained [spilling of] blood. The Council called on the Arab and Muslim nations to do their utmost to defend the Palestinian holy places, which are going up in flames of desecration and Judaization; for they have no choice but [to engage in] fervent activity using all means available to them in order to protect the purity of the holy places and prevent the vigorous attempts to desecrate, falsify and Judaize them, before it is too late.
This [statement was made] during the 125th session of the Supreme Fatwa Council headed by [PA] Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, Council Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.”