Palestinians Create Human Cordon Around Al Aqsa

Spokesman for the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands Zahi Anjidat said that the Palestinians of the holy city and the occupied lands managed on Tuesday morning to create a human cordon protecting the Aqsa Mosque. The spokesman affirmed that a large number of Palestinian men and women from Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands were able to create a human shield around the Aqsa Mosque in order to protect it from any possible Israeli break-in. He pointed out that extremist Jewish groups declared their intention to storm the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque following the opening ceremony of the ruin synagogue in order to initiate another ceremony for the building of the alleged temple of Solomon. In the same context, violent clashes broke out Tuesday morning in different Jerusalem areas especially in the vicinity of the Old City and the Aqsa Mosque, while the Israeli occupation forces are still besieging the holy city for the fourth consecutive day and prevent thousands of Palestinians from reaching the holy Mosque.

Spokesman for the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands Zahi Anjidat
said that the Palestinians of the holy city and the occupied lands managed on
Tuesday morning to create a human cordon protecting the Aqsa Mosque.

The spokesman affirmed that a large number of Palestinian men and women from
Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands were able to create a human shield around
the Aqsa Mosque in order to protect it from any possible Israeli break-in.

He pointed out that extremist Jewish groups declared their intention to storm
the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque following the opening ceremony of the ruin
synagogue in order to initiate another ceremony for the building of the alleged
temple of Solomon.

In the same context, violent clashes broke out Tuesday morning in different
Jerusalem areas especially in the vicinity of the Old City and the Aqsa Mosque,
while the Israeli occupation forces are still besieging the holy city for the
fourth consecutive day and prevent thousands of Palestinians from reaching the
holy Mosque.

29 Palestinian young men were reportedly wounded during the clashes, four of
them were taken prisoners among many others.

The IOF troops used batons and tear gas and flashbang grenades as well as
mounted policemen and dogs to suppress the Palestinian protesters.

Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic Movement in occupied
lands, and Sheikh Ali Abu Sheikha, a senior Islamic Movement official were among
those who were physically assaulted.

In light of the Israeli restrictions imposed on the entry of men into the Aqsa
Mosque, dozens of Palestinian women were able to enter it as they were chanting
slogans in response to the voices of Israeli settlers who gathered in Al-Buraq
plaza in preparation for launching a sudden attack on the holy Mosque.

Source: Palestinian Information Center