Palestinian anger and warnings against igniting the situation in Jerusalem a judicial precedent allowing Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa

Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque Omar Al-Kiswani held the occupation fully responsible for the reaction to allowing Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa, and said, "By encouraging and allowing extremists to violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa, they will ignite a religious war in it."

Al-Aqsa Mosque, occupied Jerusalem, a group of extremists storming Al-Aqsa and trying to perform Talmudic prayers in the eastern arena, and the Al-Murabitat appear to confront them.

Extremists as they storm Al-Aqsa and try to perform Talmudic prayers in its eastern square

Occupied Jerusalem - In a judicial precedent, and for the first time since the occupation of Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1967, the Israeli Magistrate's Court in occupied Jerusalem ruled - yesterday, Wednesday - the right of Jews to perform "silent" prayers inside Al-Aqsa. Right-wing judge Bilha Yahalom, who issued the ruling, said silent prayer "cannot be interpreted as a criminal act."

It may seem to the reader that Jewish prayers will begin in Al-Aqsa from the moment this decision is pronounced, but it has actually taken place on a daily basis inside Al-Aqsa for months. .

Prior implementation of the decision

For example, more than 1,600 Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed their prayers inside it during the Hebrew "Throne Day" last September. Prior to that, the occupation police had secured the incursions in the morning and afternoon hours, and at the same time worked to empty the paths of the intrusive Muslim worshipers, by summoning them for investigation or arresting them and removing them from the mosque.

The judicial decision to legalize prayer came to cancel the occupation police’s ban on extremist Rabbi “Aryeh Lebo” from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, after his numerous attempts to perform prayers there, while his lawyer, “Moshe Polsky” commented on allowing his client to pray in Al-Aqsa, saying, “It is unreasonable for Jews to be prevented from whispering.” By praying, while Muslims on the Temple Mount can do whatever they want—praying, giving religious lectures, playing football, even rioting—but the Jews feel they are strangers in this holy place.”

Al-Aqsa Mosque, occupied Jerusalem, a group of extremist settlers during a storming tour of Al-Aqsa under the protection of the occupation police (Aj news)Extremists storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation police

Professor of Jerusalem Studies Abdullah Maarouf clarifies the term “silent prayer” in the judicial decision as a natural biblical prayer, and the difference in the occupation court’s claim is that the problem is in the publicity of these prayers or their volume, and leniency in this matter necessarily means that the next step will be to allow the voices to be raised The settlers perform their prayers inside the mosque, as is happening in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron.

Maarouf adds to AJ NEWS, "The problem is not related to the level of sound in the biblical prayers that these people hold in Al-Aqsa, because the root of the problem is the presence of the occupation and its settlers inside and around Al-Aqsa, and the occupation will not be satisfied just by performing prayers in a low voice, because the declared goal is to achieve a permanent Jewish presence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque by erecting a building for worship and performing rituals inside the mosque.

The judicial decision was preceded by multiple violations by settlers in Al-Aqsa, the most recent and most dangerous of which was the raising of the Israeli flag several times inside its courtyards, and the incitement of the “Temple Mount organizations” against the Islamic Endowment Department and the call to expel it from Al-Aqsa and consider it a terrorist organization.

Awqaf: We do not recognize the occupation courts

The director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, confirms that the Islamic Waqf does not recognize the legitimacy of the occupation, and the decisions that are implemented by force of arms in Al-Aqsa through police, special forces, intelligence and the army, describing the Israeli government as extremist from its head to its extremists who storm Al-Aqsa.

Al-Kiswani - in his speech to Aj news - held the occupation fully responsible for the reaction to allowing Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa, and said, "By encouraging and allowing extremists to violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa, and disregard for the feelings of Muslims, they will ignite a religious war in Al-Aqsa."

This decision coincides with the sixth anniversary of what was known as the Jerusalem Gift or the Intifada of Knives in October 2015, when the Palestinians rose up against violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa and the assault on women there.

Hatem Abdel Qader: The legalization of Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa is a dramatic and dangerous development

Dangerous move

The Secretary-General of the Islamic and Christian Authority for the Defense of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites, Hatem Abdel Qader, also confirmed to AJ NEWS that this decision may ignite the situation again inside Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, because the Palestinians will not allow the establishment of silent or non-silent rituals, saying that the legalization of Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa is a dramatic and dangerous development towards An actual temporal and spatial division, and a qualitative leap in the attacks on Al-Aqsa, may pave the way for greater attacks.

Calls for Jordanian and international action

From a legal point of view, the lawyer specialized in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa affairs, Khaled Zabarka, says that the Israeli court’s decision is not worth anything, “because it is a judicial authority serving the occupation, and it has become one of the tools to change the status quo in Al-Aqsa Mosque, far from impartiality.”

Zabarka warned - speaking to Al Jazeera Net - that "the owner of the guardianship, care and jurisdiction over Al-Aqsa is the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and any change to the existing status agreement by the occupation is a prejudice to that guardianship, and a violation in the first place of the religious sanctity of Al-Aqsa, from an exclusive Islamic for Muslims to a Jewish sanctity." He called for urgent international action and a move by Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to protect Al-Aqsa and deter the Israeli tampering with it.