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00:00:00We came here and found
00:00:00this situation by the occupation the view completely, you know, ah,
00:00:04this area used to be one of the most beautiful areas,
00:00:09checkpoint, and as you can see, it's now ruined.
00:00:13to protect this
00:00:18support from
00:00:19the creed. The responsibility does
00:00:24by these practices at
00:00:25passing on want to change this
00:00:37Good times to you, dear viewers, and welcome supporting Israel in to this episode
00:00:42in the gate of heaven in of "With
00:00:46times, in a way that does who are elderly, women, children, the Event," where we follow in him suffering a burn with you a series of field developments and repeated settler
00:00:49to be steadfast, to preserve incursions
00:00:50into the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards. At the highest levels
00:00:53in the occupation government, starting from the Prime Minister of the occupation state,
00:00:57Benjamin Netanyahu, and also through the settlers
00:01:00and Ben-Gvir, who
00:01:04took control of it. also carried out a large-scale incursion this morning
00:01:06of the Nativity, in the and performed Talmudic Ribat, um, in rituals in the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:01:10Hundreds of settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed
00:01:14Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem this morning
00:01:17they attacked citizens from the side of the Mughrabi
00:01:18Al-Rifai? Of course, I mean, this Gate, under heavy protection from the occupation
00:01:20police, coinciding with what is called
00:01:24the Jewish Day of Atonement. We will follow with you
00:01:29Security Minister, has been inciting against this report. Occupied Jerusalem is heading towards
00:01:31more escalation in
00:01:33prayers and reads from light of the continuous occupation measures that
00:01:36dollar have turned the city into a military barracks,
00:01:39coinciding with the incursions into Al-Aqsa
00:01:43in their daily lives are escalating, Mosque and the tightening another. This also applies of restrictions on the movement
00:01:46to attacking of Jerusalemites, coinciding with what is called the
00:01:49Jewish Day of Atonement, which continues until Monday evening.
00:01:53and precautionary This comes amidst the incursion by the Prime
00:01:57is happening now in first day was a Saturday, Minister of the occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by
00:02:00a number of his government ministers and thousands
00:02:03of settlers, into the Western
00:02:06they face. From Wall, in a scene that
00:02:07and at the Gate of Mercy reflects the escalation
00:02:09from the outside, in the Gate of Mercy Cemetery. This of tension around the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Holy
00:02:12as absolute control over City, while hundreds of settlers stormed the courtyards
00:02:16of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection
00:02:19of occupation forces, and performed rituals and Talmudic
00:02:23prayers during the incursion,
00:02:26including what is called
00:02:28and also the Ibrahimi Mosque in "epic prostration." In contrast, the Governorate
00:02:31meaning, she might not have been able to of Jerusalem confirmed the launch of calls for
00:02:35It is not mobilization and steadfastness in the Al-Aqsa
00:02:37epic prostrations, blow the Mosque to confront settler incursions
00:02:40prayer garments that are not and thwart occupation plans,
00:02:43warning of
00:02:46transform this the escalation of Jewish the will of Muslims and against groups' movements
00:02:49grass sprouts. This around the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish
00:02:52holiday season, as part of attempts to impose new
00:02:55religious rituals in the region.
00:03:00attacks in the heart of this Outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards, the circle
00:03:02of violations is expanding with the escalation of decisions to expel
00:03:07nation should compete with Jerusalemites from it,
00:03:09to the Bab Al-Rahma prayer hall, this while Palestinian circles warn that the repercussions of these
00:03:11measures will extend beyond the holiday period
00:03:15to impose permanent realities and encroach
00:03:18prevented from entering this on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Judaize it.
00:03:21While incursions continue
00:03:24and strict measures are in place in Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa
00:03:28Mosque remains at the heart of the escalation, amidst
00:03:31fears that the measures related to the
00:03:34holiday season will turn into
00:03:37Israeli plan steps that transcend the current circumstances
00:03:40and entrench a new reality
00:03:43and bestowed upon us this inside the mosque and its surroundings. In light of
00:03:46the continued calls for pilgrimage
00:03:51the clock. This for centuries. and steadfastness, attention turns to what developments will lead to
00:03:55unprecedented with these amounts of
00:03:55of obstacles placed by the occupation
00:03:56Today, they have taken control of in Jerusalem in the coming days.
00:04:04of settlement, if this We continue with you, dear viewers, after the event, where Mr. Maarouf Al-Rifai,
00:04:06Media Advisor to the Jerusalem
00:04:09is Ashkelon? On Governorate, joins us. Welcome, Mr. Maarouf, and greetings
00:04:10the historical and legal status quo in to you.
00:04:12of the Islamic endowments. Greetings, my brother Hassan, to you and all viewers. Welcome, Professor Maarouf
00:04:16Al-Rifai. A continuous aggression and violations in
00:04:20the heart of Jerusalem, and also repeated incursions at all
00:04:24and its surroundings. This political and racist Israeli levels into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Prime Minister
00:04:29place in 1967, this of the occupation is talking about
00:04:33no less than a thousand settlers who stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa
00:04:36Mosque since the early hours of this morning
00:04:39under pretexts related to what is called the Day
00:04:43of Atonement
00:04:45To this extent, the colonial for Israel. I mean, allow me, my brother Hassan, to first
00:04:49talk about
00:04:51Mosque. In and its east. We follow a stolen right by the occupation forces, which is the right to move
00:04:54on roads. We have been stuck at the Jaba
00:04:57occupation checkpoint since 6 PM. This checkpoint was
00:05:00closed by the occupation forces on the occasion of the Hebrew
00:05:04and employees are prevented from holidays. There are tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens who
00:05:07are now piled up in their vehicles since 6 PM
00:05:10until now, and I mean
00:05:13I left my office in Ram Governorate, me and some colleagues,
00:05:17between 1:30 and 2:00, and until now we are stuck at this
00:05:21the hateful
00:05:24occupation checkpoint. The occupation forces
00:05:27fired tear gas canisters and sound bombs at us,
00:05:31and even prevented us from parking
00:05:34our vehicles and
00:05:37foot. And thousands of our Palestinian people are still,
00:05:41until this moment, at the Jaba checkpoint, not allowed
00:05:44to move, neither on foot nor in their vehicles. And this
00:05:48is a right guaranteed by all international laws and conventions, my brother Hassan,
00:05:52which is the right to freedom of movement on roads that the occupation forces prevent us
00:05:56from exercising. There are more than 88 occupation checkpoints surrounding
00:05:59the city of Jerusalem now, all of them closed due to
00:06:03the Hebrew holidays, and to allow
00:06:06settlers to move freely during these holidays,
00:06:09separating by a hateful racial
00:06:13segregation that has not been seen even in South
00:06:16Africa during the apartheid era. As for
00:06:19your question regarding the incursions, yes,
00:06:22yesterday Netanyahu led
00:06:25a prayer for tens of thousands of settlers
00:06:29in the Buraq Plaza and at
00:06:32the Western Wall, and he was reciting these Torah
00:06:35recitations in front of tens of thousands of
00:06:39settlers who stormed the Old City and the
00:06:43western area adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque. Of course, the occupation
00:06:47police turned the Old City into a military barracks
00:06:50and prohibited movement and the opening
00:06:53of shops, and even the residents
00:06:56of the Old City were prevented from leaving their homes. Before
00:07:00the start of these holidays, they carried out precautionary expulsions
00:07:06arrests. Of course, the
00:07:10and as you know, settlers were forbidden from storming Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:07:13Consequently, they held collective prayers in the courtyards,
00:07:16alleys, and streets of the Old City
00:07:22gate is targeted by colonial
00:07:25associations, which claim that it is the remains of the alleged Second Temple
00:07:28and that the Third Temple will be built from this
00:07:32point. Therefore, the area adjacent
00:07:34to the Gate of Mercy prayer hall
00:07:38now has something similar to an undeclared synagogue, which is targeted
00:07:41by daily incursions, and settlers
00:07:44perform collective prayers,
00:07:49shofar, and bring in
00:07:52worn, and prayer tools that are only used
00:07:56inside a synagogue. Today, approximately a thousand settlers
00:08:00stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, led by the extremist minister Ben-Gvir,
00:08:04and performed all Talmudic rituals in the courtyards
00:08:07of Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially in this area located east
00:08:10of the Dome of the Rock Mosque, and also in the Gate of Mercy Cemetery,
00:08:14which is located outside the eastern wall
00:08:17of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Yes. Well, Mr. Maarouf, honestly, there are rituals
00:08:21called "epic prostration" or even "lying prostration," these strange scenes
00:08:25performed by settlers inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa
00:08:28Mosque, claiming the Day of Atonement. There is, honestly,
00:08:31a clear Israeli settlement policy that is being carried out under the protection,
00:08:34sponsorship, and support of the occupation army to provide
00:08:38all means of security and safety for these settlers to enter
00:08:42or storm the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and perform these religious
00:08:45rituals. What is the danger of such measures that Israel seeks
00:08:48time and time again to
00:08:51confirm the right of these settlers, in
00:08:55quotation marks, to perform such prayers or
00:08:58rituals? I mean, the colonial organizations, supported by
00:09:01Netanyahu's government, my brother Hassan, have taken it upon themselves to establish
00:09:05a foothold in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:09:09the eastern area of the Dome of the Rock Mosque, and
00:09:12they want to take control of the Bab al-Rahma cemetery from the outside and establish
00:09:15regular prayers, as is the case in the Western
00:09:19Wall Plaza, in order to change
00:09:23Al-Aqsa Mosque. They even submitted a request,
00:09:26the colonial organizations, to Netanyahu's government, to allow
00:09:29them to pray only on Saturday for Jews. I mean,
00:09:33how come Friday is reserved for Muslims and no
00:09:36other religion is allowed to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque, even for a
00:09:40visit or tourism? They want to allocate Saturday
00:09:43for Jewish prayer, and only Jews are allowed. This
00:09:47court case has been postponed until next week or the week after, and perhaps
00:09:51the approval will be given to allocate Saturday only
00:09:54for Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:09:57organizations, whose actions Netanyahu's office used to claim
00:10:01were individual acts and not supported by
00:10:05Netanyahu's government, and that the historical and legal status quo in Al-Aqsa
00:10:08Mosque would not be touched and that they respected this status. Today,
00:10:12Netanyahu's government boasts that it is the one providing
00:10:16these facilities and that it is facilitating attempts
00:10:19to control Al-Aqsa Mosque. Ultimately, the big and distant goal, my brother
00:10:23Hassan, is to annex East Jerusalem.
00:10:25Israel has a project called "United Jerusalem" as the capital
00:10:28of the occupation, and the Jerusalem 20 50 project. It cannot
00:10:32implement this project, which is the annexation of East Jerusalem
00:10:35as a unified capital with West Jerusalem for the occupation,
00:10:38except by trying to control Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy
00:10:41Sepulchre and preventing the thousands of people who
00:10:44flock to Al-Aqsa Mosque on Islamic religious occasions. Therefore, the
00:10:48colonial organizations do not practice such methods
00:10:52and such violations in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque
00:10:55on their own initiative, but rather there is a systematic
00:10:59plan supported by Netanyahu's government. And you know now that this is an
00:11:03election season, and everyone wants to outbid each other at the expense of our people's
00:11:07blood, and at the expense of our holy sites, and at the expense
00:11:09of our lands. Yes. Well, I mean, when
00:11:13Ben-Gvir and what is called the Israeli
00:11:16National Security Minister, or even the Prime Minister of the occupation
00:11:20state, initiate these rituals with them,
00:11:23hundreds of settlers, they confirm this approach
00:11:27of incursions or grant legitimacy, in one way or another,
00:11:30to the process of settlers storming and granting such
00:11:34rituals and practices legitimacy
00:11:37of one kind or another. How
00:11:40do you follow this matter, Mr.
00:11:43extremist minister whom we are watching now on your honorable
00:11:47screen is one of those who, ever since he assumed
00:11:50his duties as the Israeli National
00:11:54the Al-Aqsa Mosque. And whenever he storms the Al-Aqsa Mosque, he performs
00:11:58the Torah scrolls, and he used to declare
00:12:02that this place is a place for Jews, and that
00:12:05Muslims have taken over this place, and that we will liberate this place.
00:12:09And on one occasion, he appeared to us and asked, "Whose place is it today?"
00:12:13I mean, or "who is the owner of the place today?" He was boasting
00:12:16that he, the colonial organizations, and the extremist settlers
00:12:20completely control the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:12:23Of course, all of this, my brother Hassan, is accompanied by
00:12:26measures, I mean, against the Islamic Endowments and against
00:12:29its employees. The Islamic Endowments have now become stripped of their will,
00:12:33and they are the, I mean, the owners of the administration and the owners
00:12:36of the custodianship of the holy sites in the city of Jerusalem, especially the Al-Aqsa
00:12:39Mosque. Today, the employees are either deported,
00:12:42or detained, or prevented from entering the city of Jerusalem, or sidelined.
00:12:46I mean, these incursions, before October 7th, were accompanied by
00:12:50Waqf employees, and, I mean,
00:12:53specific times were allocated, and even though it was, I mean, a fait
00:12:57accompli, it was dealt with by Waqf employees. Today, the Islamic
00:13:01Waqf does not dare to interfere in anything inside the courtyards
00:13:04of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Even the green grass that the
00:13:07Waqf used to remove in April and May, before the
00:13:10dry season and before this
00:13:14year, they were prevented from removing even the weeds. The trees that you
00:13:17see in front of you in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque are all exposed
00:13:21to drought and dryness, and they have started to fall
00:13:24one by one. I mean, even the trees, they prevented the Waqf
00:13:28from pruning them, or caring for them, or watering them, or looking after them.
00:13:31The area, as I told you, adjacent
00:13:34prayer hall, my brother Hassan, which in 2019, the Jerusalemites
00:13:38fought a battle to open it and to pray in it. Today, we are
00:13:43prayer hall. You saw yesterday, Friday, the police entered
00:13:47during prayer and during the Friday sermon. The occupation
00:13:50police entered, and they entered with their shoes, of course, and defiled
00:13:54the place. They defiled the Bab Al-Rahma prayer hall and asked some
00:13:58worshipers to leave the prayer hall and prevented them from entering
00:14:01it. Therefore, we believe that the occupation
00:14:04government has begun to allocate this area as an undeclared
00:14:08synagogue for settlers and colonial organizations.
00:14:11Yes. Well, Mr. Al-Rifai, you spoke, I mean, Professor Maarouf, regarding
00:14:15the checkpoints, and we witnessed a series
00:14:20today in the way of citizens' movement and also around
00:14:23Jerusalem. In what you mentioned, the Jaba
00:14:27checkpoint, where thousands of vehicles were, and this is not an exaggeration, whoever
00:14:30was at the site witnessed this huge number, thousands of vehicles
00:14:34stranded and stopped because of this Israeli
00:14:38checkpoint and its closure in the face of citizens
00:14:41and their movements, and coinciding with the return of school students
00:14:44from Jerusalem's sons and daughters who, I mean, were cut off
00:14:48from returning to their homes. How was this scene, in addition
00:14:51to the series of military checkpoints that tighten the grip and
00:14:55siege on the Holy City? My dear
00:14:57brother, Israel uses several tools to create an environment
00:15:01that expels Jerusalemite citizens, whether inside the city of Jerusalem or even in
00:15:05the suburbs of Jerusalem, in order to expel these
00:15:08residents and these Arabs from their places of residence and implement
00:15:12a series of settlement projects that are no longer
00:15:16confined only to inside the wall but even in Anata, in
00:15:19Hizme, in Al-Ram, in Qalandiya, in Kafr Aqab, in Al-Azariya, and in
00:15:23Abu Dis. Therefore, the entire
00:15:25Jerusalem Governorate, whether the city or its suburbs, is targeted
00:15:29by settlement projects. And when Israel
00:15:31closes these checkpoints, as I told you, more than 80 occupation checkpoints, it
00:15:35creates an environment that is not only expelling but also, I mean, an environment
00:15:39unsuitable for movement, unsuitable for living, unsuitable for social
00:15:42interaction. Do you know that some families cannot communicate
00:15:46with their brother or sister or uncle inside the apartheid
00:15:50wall because he cannot go to the checkpoint and wait four hours
00:15:54and five hours at the occupation checkpoint? Even our family
00:15:57relationships and our social relationships have been destroyed
00:16:02the checkpoints. Today, I reached the Jaba checkpoint at 2:30 PM,
00:16:05Hassan. And I remained there until now. I'm still at the checkpoint. I ask a young man next to me in the car, "How long have you been at the checkpoint?" He said, "I've been here since
00:16:0911 AM." That means eight hours or more than eight hours inside
00:16:13his car at the Jaba occupation checkpoint. And there are tens of
00:16:17thousands of Jerusalemite citizens
00:16:20university students, and school students. I mean, can you
00:16:24imagine when an elderly man or an elderly woman or
00:16:28a child sits for eight hours in his car, how does he want to relieve
00:16:31himself? How does he want to eat? How does he want to drink? How does he want to live his life
00:16:35when he is imprisoned inside a car for eight or nine hours?
00:16:38And we were informed a little while ago that these checkpoints may
00:16:42remain closed until tomorrow evening, which is the end of what is called the
00:16:45Day of Atonement. Yes.
00:16:49Well, Mr. Al-Rifai, honestly, these
00:16:52measures are part of the policy of collective
00:16:55punishment pursued by Israel against its people
00:16:58and our people, meaning that Israel celebrates
00:17:02what is called the Day of Atonement, and we pay the price with this
00:17:06closure. Many spent
00:17:09long hours at military checkpoints, stranded, unable
00:17:12to return to their homes or even find transportation
00:17:16to take them from one city to
00:17:19to Jerusalem, which today was, I mean, at military checkpoints
00:17:23in a truly chilling sight:
00:17:27vehicles stopped on the side of the road, not allowed to pass or
00:17:31enter or even return to another place or from where
00:17:34they came. I mean, my brother Hassan,
00:17:38unfortunately, I want to say with bitterness that we in the city of Jerusalem
00:17:42have started to feel as if we are alone, of course, all of us as Palestinian people,
00:17:45but now I am talking about us as Jerusalemites. I mean,
00:17:49it is as if the issue of Jerusalem is only for Palestinians and it
00:17:53only concerns Jerusalemites. Actually, if it weren't for
00:17:57the failure of the international community, and if it weren't for the American President Trump's recognition in
00:18:002017 of Jerusalem as the united capital of the occupation and the relocation of his country's embassy
00:18:04to East Jerusalem, and if it weren't for the abandonment by the Arab and Islamic
00:18:08nation, we would not have reached what we have reached today. I mean, today
00:18:11when we say that the city of Jerusalem is being Judaized and Israelized,
00:18:14and the Al-Aqsa Mosque is being desecrated and gradually
00:18:18stepped on, today they took the cemeteries and they took the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall. Today
00:18:21we are prevented from reaching east of the Dome of the Rock Mosque,
00:18:25and tomorrow they will open the Dome of the Rock. Do you know
00:18:28that they are now repeating that the Al-Aqsa Mosque
00:18:32is only the Qibli Mosque or the men's prayer hall,
00:18:35and the rest of this area should be for Jews? Do you know that
00:18:39there is, I mean, a project submitted to the Knesset to
00:18:42allocate the Qibli Mosque only for Muslims and the remaining 144
00:18:46square meters for Jews, which is a project to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
00:18:49So, I mean, until when will this silence and this
00:18:53inaction from our Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters continue, while they see
00:18:56their first Qibla and the third mosque in Islam
00:19:00being desecrated in this way, and no one moves a finger? It is true
00:19:03that we, as Jerusalemites, I mean, we have agreed to be
00:19:07the hand for these holy sites and guardians for these holy sites
00:19:10and steadfast and clinging to our presence in our land, but
00:19:14also, I mean, as it is said, patience has
00:19:17limits, and there are ethical, national, and religious duties on
00:19:21our Arab and Islamic nation to stand with Muslims
00:19:24and to stand with our Christian brothers and sisters in the city of Jerusalem
00:19:28in order to stop such crimes and such violations. These holidays,
00:19:31my brother Hassan, will continue until the first week of October,
00:19:34and the roads are closed, and the shops are closed,
00:19:38and the restrictions are closed on us, on our schools, on our children, on our families,
00:19:41and on our social relationships, and on all aspects of our lives. Until when
00:19:45will this continue? And unfortunately, these Hebrew holidays never end.
00:19:48Every day we hear of a new holiday, and every day we hear of a new
00:19:52Hebrew occasion, and every day there is a new celebration. So until when will
00:19:56Jerusalem remain captive to these holidays and captive to these occasions and
00:19:59these celebrations? Thank you, thank you very much, Mr. Maarouf
00:20:03Al-Rifai, Media Advisor in the Governorate of Jerusalem. Thank
00:20:06you very much for this participation. Also, in light of the continued
00:20:10occupation authorities' measures and practices, they continue, in
00:20:14the heart of Hebron, to close the Ibrahimi Mosque to
00:20:17citizens, under the pretext of what is called the Jewish holidays
00:20:21or the Day of Atonement, coinciding with the escalation of settler
00:20:24attacks in Masafer Yatta
00:20:28in this report.
00:20:30In the heart of the city of Hebron, the occupation closes the Ibrahimi
00:20:34Mosque to Palestinian citizens
00:20:37during Jewish holidays, where worshipers
00:20:41reaching the mosque and performing prayers in it. In
00:20:45contrast, the way is opened for settlers to storm
00:20:48it completely, desecrate its holy sites,
00:20:52and hold noisy parties in it that are inconsistent
00:20:56with its religious sanctity. I mean, today
00:20:58we are living in a difficult and painful reality with the closure of
00:21:02the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslims
00:21:04and worshipers, while it is opened with all
00:21:07its corridors, courtyards, and sections to the occupation
00:21:11and to settlers and hordes
00:21:15of settlers. In the areas east of Yatta
00:21:17and its Masafer, settler
00:21:20attacks on citizens and their property continue.
00:21:23The area witnessed a new attack on one
00:21:27of the citizens after settlers sprayed pepper spray
00:21:30in his face, which resulted
00:21:34to the face. Attacks are repeated against
00:21:37citizens and affect individuals and property
00:21:40and livelihoods under the protection of occupation
00:21:42forces, which exacerbates the suffering of the residents
00:21:46and pushes them to face increasingly difficult
00:21:50security and living conditions. Settlers
00:21:53around the clock practice
00:21:56terrorism because they are actually
00:22:00terrorist groups and gangs assigned to this work
00:22:03under the protection of the occupation army. Yesterday,
00:22:07in these areas, and also all
00:22:11areas of Hebron Governorate are targeted by a criminal
00:22:15attack, but steadfastness, resilience, and citizenship are
00:22:18the real response to everything that the occupation does. Between
00:22:22the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the continuous attacks in
00:22:26Masafer Yatta and other areas of the governorate, the measures
00:22:29affecting citizens
00:22:33from restricting freedom of worship residents
00:22:37and their property, which places the people
00:22:41of the governorate in front of continuous violations in the absence
00:22:44of any measures to prevent their recurrence, while
00:22:47citizens continue to cling to their land and holy sites
00:22:51and livelihoods, despite the restrictions and attacks
00:22:56Hebron, Mahmoud Farash, Palestine
00:23:00TV. Welcome back to "After the Event,"
00:23:04dear viewers, as we continue to follow the series of field developments
00:23:07and the escalation of these measures by settlers
00:23:11and the continuous incursions
00:23:14into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque
00:23:18Hebron, and also the release of settlers by the occupation
00:23:21authorities throughout our Palestinian land in
00:23:24systematic sabotage and destruction in
00:23:27the context of an Israeli organized plan
00:23:31in the context of the collective punishment policy pursued by
00:23:34the occupation state. On this topic, I welcome our guest in the studio, Dr.
00:23:38Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Advisor to the President. Welcome, Doctor. God bless you and good
00:23:42evening to you. God bless you. Welcome, Doctor Mahmoud Al-Habbash.
00:23:45You are, of course, following these continuous and escalating
00:23:50aggression, targeting the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. An incursion is taking place
00:23:54with the presence of the Prime Minister of the occupation state, and also the so-called
00:23:57National Security Minister, Ben-Gvir, and extremist Jewish groups
00:24:01performing various rituals, as if Israel is trying to convey
00:24:05a message in one way or another that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in the grip
00:24:15only to conveying a message or delivering a message.
00:24:19Indeed. However, it is clear that
00:24:22there is a deliberate, systematic
00:24:27to impose a new reality in Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa
00:24:31Mosque. There is a legal and historical
00:24:34status quo that has prevailed in Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque
00:24:40This status
00:24:43states and stipulates that the responsibility for
00:24:46managing the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic endowments,
00:24:50including the Western Wall, which
00:24:53they falsely and slanderously call the Wailing Wall,
00:24:57all of this administration is exclusively
00:25:00and solely the responsibility This matter
00:25:03has been respected by everyone since the Ottoman
00:25:07era, through the British Mandate.
00:25:10Yes. Even under
00:25:13Israeli occupation, even when the occupation took
00:25:19legal and historical status was respected
00:25:21and prevailed until 2000,
00:25:25when then Israeli Prime Minister Sharon
00:25:28stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and committed a massacre in the courtyards
00:25:32of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They began to talk
00:25:35and plan to repeat
00:25:38the scenario of the Ibrahimi
00:25:41the Ibrahimi Mosque, the existing legal situation was
00:25:44that the responsibility was absolute
00:25:48for the Waqf, even under occupation. Yes,
00:25:52gradually, and especially after
00:25:55the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre
00:25:58in 1994, a division operation was carried out that changed
00:26:03state and imposed a new reality. There became
00:26:07absolute control by the occupation over
00:26:09more than half of the Ibrahimi Mosque, and now they are expanding
00:26:13control gradually over
00:26:17the entire vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque and even extending
00:26:19to the section that was left
00:26:23for Muslims. Now they
00:26:26situation in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Yes, gradually
00:26:30and incrementally in the prevailing
00:26:33situation previously or in the existing situation previously,
00:26:37the responsibility for admitting non-Muslim visitors
00:26:41rested with the Islamic Endowments. The Islamic Endowments
00:26:44are the ones who regulate the entry of non- Muslims at specific
00:26:49not affect worship
00:26:52and that affects the exclusive right of Muslims in the Al-Aqsa
00:26:55Mosque. After 2000, the occupation authorities changed
00:26:59that. They closed the Mughrabi Gate completely. They
00:27:06Muslims are not allowed to enter from this gate
00:27:09at all. Previously, we used to We enter through Bab al-Magharib normally.
00:27:13It is true that the occupation exists and controls the
00:27:16area, but Muslims used to enter
00:27:20Al-Aqsa Mosque through Bab al-Magharib, and they
00:27:23used to go to or pray at
00:27:26the Western Wall and the Western Wall Plaza,
00:27:30because the Western Wall and the Western Wall Plaza are Islamic endowments. We are not
00:27:34inventing something. These are Islamic endowments, so much so that
00:27:37the League of Nations in 1930,
00:27:40after any uprising of the Western Wall
00:27:44that preceded that, recognized that the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque,
00:27:48and all the plazas, including the Western Wall Plaza, are a pure Islamic endowment
00:27:51and an absolute responsibility of the Islamic endowments.
00:27:55Therefore, the truth that prevails now and that
00:28:00Jerusalem is that there is a systematic Israeli plan
00:28:03programmed to change the existing situation to impose a new
00:28:06reality through which the occupying state controls
00:28:10permanently. Yes, and they impose this matter by force
00:28:15the Ibrahimi Mosque. Now they control who enters and who does not
00:28:18enter. Now they allow the entry
00:28:21and desecration of the mosque through these
00:28:24extremist terrorists. I mean, Ben-Gvir,
00:28:27when he entered the mosque, I imagine the mosque
00:28:31now, where he stepped, needs washing, it needs purification.
00:28:37permissible in our Islamic law to
00:28:41allow the performance
00:28:44of worship rituals against
00:28:48Muslims in Muslim places, even if
00:28:51they are of another religion. Yes, well, doctor, what you mentioned today,
00:28:54everyone witnessed these images of what is called the epic prostration, which is
00:28:58prostrating on the ground. Frankly, these images are broadcast to all parts of the world.
00:29:01Frankly, it is true that the Palestinian stands in the
00:29:04advanced trench defending Al-Aqsa Mosque, and God has bestowed this
00:29:08distinction upon him. But frankly, it is not only a Palestinian
00:29:11responsibility, and it is not only the responsibility of this Palestinian
00:29:15who stands around the clock. What we saw today is that there is a policy of collective
00:29:18punishment. A citizen needed seven or eight hours to
00:29:22move from another governorate and did not arrive due to the tightening
00:29:25of checkpoints as part of a dangerous and systematic policy of collective punishment
00:29:28for everything. Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem
00:29:33are an integral part of the creed of two billion
00:29:36Muslims on the face of the earth.
00:29:39Part of the creed, part of the religion. This is not just a
00:29:42place of worship. It has a political nature or a national
00:29:46or historical nature only. This is part of
00:29:49the creed, part of the religion. It is part of a
00:29:52verse of the Quran, from the verses of the Quran: "Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from
00:29:56the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque." If
00:30:00anyone can erase
00:30:03this verse at the beginning of Surah Al-Isra, then they can
00:30:06erase Al-Aqsa Mosque from the minds and consciences
00:30:10of Muslims. It is part of the creed of two billion
00:30:13Muslims and not only for Palestinians. Yes, we are honored
00:30:17and proud that we are in the first
00:30:20trench defending Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:30:24We suffer hardships, we suffer difficulties,
00:30:27we suffer, we are killed, imprisoned, expelled,
00:30:31besieged. Our homes
00:30:34are violated,
00:30:36our money is withheld, our resources are stolen,
00:30:40but we are always held
00:30:44high. We are always held high because
00:30:47we are in the first trench of confrontation,
00:30:50defending the first of the two Qiblas, the second
00:30:54of the two Mosques, and the third of the two Holy Sanctuaries, defending the place of the Prophet's
00:30:57ascension, may God bless him and grant him peace. This is an honor beyond
00:31:01honor for us. We
00:31:04will not abandon this responsibility, but at the same time,
00:31:08it is our duty and our right, yes, to
00:31:12remind Muslims in all parts of the world, in the
00:31:16East and West, rulers
00:31:18and ruled, peoples and states,
00:31:22to always remind them of their responsibilities
00:31:26with us
00:31:28blessed mosque, which is part of the Holy Quran
00:31:31and part of
00:31:34not fall only on the shoulders of Palestinians, but all
00:31:38Muslims everywhere in the world are responsible.
00:31:42And I direct a call from here to all
00:31:45our Muslim brothers and sisters all over the world.
00:31:47Yes, the honor of Ribat in the
00:31:51first of the two Qiblas, the second of the two Mosques, and the third of the two Holy Sanctuaries
00:31:57Al-Aqsa Mosque. An honor
00:32:00that we invite you to attain. We invite you to share this
00:32:05honor with us and to share this duty with us and
00:32:09to share this responsibility. Be
00:32:11with us in our Ribat. Be partners, O Muslims.
00:32:17Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Prophet, may God bless him
00:32:20and grant him peace, entrusted this trust and this responsibility
00:32:24to all of us and in our necks when
00:32:28he said, when he was asked about Al-Aqsa
00:32:31Mosque, Maymunah bint Sa'd,
00:32:35his freed slave, may God be pleased with her, said,
00:32:39"O Messenger of God, advise us concerning Bayt al-Maqdis." He said, "The land of gathering
00:32:43and resurrection." Yes,
00:32:46and come to it. This is an imperative verb, and an imperative verb denotes
00:32:49obligation unless something diverts it from that. Correct.
00:32:52Come to it. It is obligatory upon you to come to it, to protect it, to
00:32:56preserve it, to maintain it, to light
00:32:59its lamps. This is not the duty of Palestinians only.
00:33:02And no one should tell me that I am not responsible, and no one should say that
00:33:05the circumstances are not helping. No, you are responsible, O
00:33:09Muslims, states and peoples, rulers
00:33:12and ruled. You are responsible before
00:33:15God to create the circumstances and to make
00:33:19the circumstances that help you
00:33:21and assist you in performing the duty of preserving
00:33:25and maintaining Al-Aqsa Mosque and in attaining
00:33:28the honor of Ribat in Al-Aqsa Mosque. Come to it and pray in it. This is
00:33:32the words of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. Yes, come to it. These are the words of the Messenger, may
00:33:35peace and blessings be upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him. She said, "O Messenger
00:33:38of God," Maymunah says, "O Messenger
00:33:41of God, I thought that if I could not reach it myself..."
00:33:46reach it. No one might have been able to reach it. He said, "Donate
00:33:50oil to light its lamps." And this is a translation
00:33:54of the saying of God Almighty in the Holy Quran:
00:33:58"Indeed, God has purchased from
00:34:01the believers their lives
00:34:04and their properties in exchange for Paradise."
00:34:06Ribat with life
00:34:09and Ribat with wealth. If
00:34:12the bodies do not come, then let
00:34:16the provisions come. Let
00:34:18the support come. Donate oil to light
00:34:22its lamps. And this is a reference to material support. Yes,
00:34:26now, whoever donated oil, of course,
00:34:30then whoever donated oil was as if he had come. This is not only
00:34:34the responsibility of Palestinians. This is the responsibility of the Muslim in
00:34:37America, and the Muslim in Indonesia and Australia,
00:34:41and the Arab Muslim and the non-Arab Muslim.
00:34:47This is a religious and sacred responsibility. We,
00:34:51as Palestinians, God Almighty has honored us, praise be to God,
00:34:54that God has chosen us
00:34:58honor, the honor of Ribat in Bayt al-Maqdis
00:35:01and the surroundings of Bayt al-Maqdis. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace,
00:35:05taught Muslims and said, "Indeed, the best
00:35:09of your jihad is Ribat."
00:35:12A time is coming when the best of
00:35:15jihad will be Ribat, steadfastness,
00:35:17remaining. And the best
00:35:20of your Ribat is Ashkelon. Where
00:35:24Mars?
00:35:26Ashkelon is in Palestine. Yes, it is one of the gates
00:35:29of Jerusalem. It is a gate, it is one of the gates
00:35:33of Jerusalem, and the saying "Ashkelon" is
00:35:36a metaphor for Bayt al-Maqdis
00:35:39honor a Muslim
00:35:43must be keen on. Yes. Yes, well, keen on attaining it.
00:35:47Yes, this is a matter of great importance, and I have called
00:35:50all Muslims throughout the world
00:35:54to pause and reflect on what is happening in the heart of Jerusalem. Israel devotes all
00:35:58its resources, not only religiously or scripturally or what
00:36:01they call Talmudic rituals, pretexts
00:36:04and false excuses that have no relation to reality, but it enjoys
00:36:08all political support. The Prime Minister of the occupying state, Benjamin
00:36:11Netanyahu, also goes, and Ben-Gvir with him, and
00:36:15a number of settlers. Therefore, there is an attempt
00:36:18to give a kind of legitimacy, not only religious for them,
00:36:22but also political, so that Jerusalem remains present,
00:36:24as if he wants to establish the issue, not just for them to
00:36:28perform Talmudic prayers and leave. Today,
00:36:32I read some reports
00:36:34with numbers
00:36:37that show the extent of the
00:36:40unlimited and unrestricted Israeli
00:36:45abroad
00:36:48for settlement projects and for supporting settlement
00:36:51in Palestine, and in Jerusalem in particular,
00:36:54and for supporting the Judaization of Jerusalem and the Judaization of the West Bank.
00:36:58Frightening numbers are presented by
00:37:01Zionist groups
00:37:05the West, in Europe, in America, in Canada, in different places.
00:37:09One of these numbers is from
00:37:12a group of NGOs, societies they call
00:37:16charitable, not government
00:37:17support,
00:37:20from one country. 362 million
00:37:24dollars from the United States. Not government
00:37:27support, not government support. About 400 million
00:37:31dollars for supporting settlement groups
00:37:35and supporting the Judaization of Jerusalem from Europe,
00:37:38from Australia, Zionist groups spread all over the world. I
00:37:42ask in the face of this, where are we from this, frankly?
00:37:46One billion, one billion dollars last year, in
00:37:49one year, donated by Zionist groups for the Judaization
00:37:53of Jerusalem. I ask the nation of two billion.
00:37:57The Islamic nation, if each one of you
00:38:01donated one
00:38:04a year, one dollar,
00:38:08only one dollar, you would buy time in Jerusalem
00:38:12and a place in Paradise. You would buy
00:38:15your history, you would buy your religion, you would buy
00:38:19your creed. One dollar for every
00:38:21Muslim.
00:38:24How much have we given? How much has the nation given to Jerusalem?
00:38:28Last year, how much
00:38:30did it give? How much did the nation give to Jerusalem, the people of Jerusalem, and the people
00:38:34of Palestine, while the Palestinian employee receives half
00:38:37a salary. Yes, how much did it give? How much did it give?
00:38:40And Gaza is being destroyed
00:38:43and annihilated. And only
00:38:46a little food and a little drink. We
00:38:49want someone to strengthen our steadfastness.
00:38:53We want to transform Arab and Islamic humanitarian
00:38:56aid into a resistance
00:38:59project, into a steadfastness
00:39:03project, a humanitarian project to create a reality
00:39:05that challenges the occupation's attempts to change the legal
00:39:08status in Jerusalem and in Palestine in general. We want to
00:39:14sympathy. I understand that Muslims sympathize with us,
00:39:17for sure, but we want to translate it. Many people around the world
00:39:21sympathize with us. We want to transform this sympathy into
00:39:25practical action, into a real stance, and to
00:39:28present. Let's compete, my brother, a little.
00:39:31Let's compete. The Islamic
00:39:34the Zionist groups that donate a billion a year
00:39:37to support settlement and Zionist
00:39:41and Judaization projects.
00:39:44And the nation, whose population is two billion, if one
00:39:48of them donated one dollar, they would collect
00:39:51two billion, but they have not given anything but crumbs. Yes,
00:39:54a few crumbs, just
00:39:57so we can eat and drink. Eating and drinking is not the most important thing, even though
00:40:01the Palestinian, I mean, Dr. Mahmoud, and you are following
00:40:04this continuously and constantly, not only in the heart of Jerusalem,
00:40:08but also in all Palestinian cities, villages, towns, and refugee camps,
00:40:11they pay a daily price for the oppression of settlement. Today, settlers
00:40:15enter every place in the village, camp, and city around
00:40:19settlement project is
00:40:22funding for settlements, building settlement outposts, paving roads in all
00:40:26Palestinian areas. We are talking about a revolution in the world
00:40:31description and expression is accurate. And even before the upcoming Israeli elections,
00:40:35the addition of what numbered
00:40:383,400 settlement housing units was announced in what is known
00:40:41as E1, which separates Jerusalem from its Arab, Islamic,
00:40:45and Christian surroundings, and Jerusalem remains isolated, alone, far away. I
00:40:48ask, who funds this? From where
00:40:51do they get the funding? The settlement associations,
00:40:55the settlers
00:40:57who are rampant in the mountains, in the valleys, in the
00:41:00plains, and in the fields, who are rampant throughout the West Bank
00:41:04in its length and breadth. Yes, daily. Who
00:41:07funds them? Who provokes them? I mean, it is supposed to be
00:41:10their state, Israel, that employs them, the government
00:41:14of the occupation and the Zionist settlement groups
00:41:17associated with it. So there is funding without a doubt. Of course, where
00:41:20is the Islamic funding to protect
00:41:22Palestine?
00:41:25Sir, do not give us anything. Come
00:41:28and spend yourselves. Come,
00:41:31come
00:41:34and yourselves fund
00:41:37projects to protect Palestine and projects to establish the citizen in his land and to establish
00:41:41the citizen in his land. Our strategy, my brother
00:41:45Hassan, today the Palestinian leadership understands
00:41:48the balance of power very well, and away from enthusiasm
00:41:52and emotional talk,
00:41:55we understand
00:41:59the nature of this conflict and the nature of this confrontation, and we understand that the cornerstone
00:42:02in thwarting the Zionist project, yes,
00:42:06is the Palestinian human being.
00:42:09It is the human being who remains rooted in his land.
00:42:12As long as the Palestinians remain, no usurper
00:42:16or occupier will be established in Palestine.
00:42:20So the strategic option
00:42:24and strategic project for us is to remain,
00:42:29the Palestinian human being in his land, in his home, in his farm, in
00:42:32his school, in his factory, in his workshop, to
00:42:36preserve the existence of Muslims
00:42:40and Palestinians in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Ibrahimi
00:42:44Mosque, in the Church
00:42:46fields, in the olive
00:42:48groves, to preserve the existence
00:42:51of human beings. Without the Palestinian human being, Palestine
00:42:55will be lost. The one who protected the Palestinian
00:42:58presence.