The Ministry of Foreign Relations asks the international community to be occupied with ‘incitement’ to destroy the sacred site in a serious way.
The Palestinian government has expressed “extreme concern” about the threats that circulate among the organizations of Israeli settlers to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriated warned on Saturday of the calls of the organizations of Israeli settlers that circulate on social networks platforms in Hebrew language to attack and demolish the mosque and build a temple instead.
The compound of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is busy, the third most sacred site of Islam and a Palestinian symbol or identity, has become symbolic of the intensified tension between Muslims and Jews in the middle of the Israel War against Gaza.
A video generated by which represents the destruction of the mosque and the construction of the “third temple” under the title “next year in Jerusalem” was published, earlier this week.
In a statement published in X, the Ministry said that it considers publications on social networks as a “systematic incitement to intensify the orientation of Christian and Islamic sacred sites in occupied Jerusalem.”
“The Ministry asks the international community and its relevant UN institutions to occupy this incitement with the maximum seriousness and take the measures required by international law,” he said.
Regular objective
Jordan manages the compound of the al-Aqsa mosque, but access to the site itself is controlled by Israeli soldiers.
Al-Aqsa has become a regular target of the visits of the Israeli Israeli politicians and the Israeli settlers, who have assaulted the complex in a almost weekly basic religious rituals and carried out under the protection of the Israeli forces.
The complex also considers an important site by the Jews, who believe it is the site of the first and second temples, the latter destroyed by the novels in 70 AD.
Under the status quo of decades of seniority of the Israeli authorities, the Jews and other non -Muslims can visit the complex in occupied species of east Jerusalem, but they are not allowed to pray there or exhibit.
Last August, the Israeli National Security Minister on the right, Itamar Ben-Gvir, caused indignation by saying that he would build a Jewish synagogue in the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex.
Once considered a marginal movement, the campaign to build a “third temple” in Al-Aqsa is growing in Israel, and many Palestinians are parallel with what has happened in Hebron, where the Ibrahimi mosque also knows.
Since he assumed the position in December 2022, Ben-Gvir, as Minister of National Security, has visited the sacred site at least six times, which caused a severe conviction.