PALESTINE
Mon 12 Jun 2023 11:41 am - Jerusalem Time
Shtayyeh: The plan to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque will cause unpredictable anger
Today, Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh warned of the "Amit Halevy" bill, which will be presented to the Israeli Knesset in the coming days, to impose temporal and spatial division in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Shtayyeh said at the outset of the cabinet session: "This step will cause massive anger whose results cannot be expected, given the sanctity and religious value of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque for the Palestinian people, Arabs and Muslims, as the first qiblah and the Prophet's journey and ascension to heaven."
Shtayyeh called for an Arab, Islamic and international move that goes beyond the vocabulary of denunciation and condemnation to impose sanctions that prevent any change in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
He also called for real international pressure to stop Israel's implementation of the settlement plan, which has become known as the (E1) area, which aims to undermine the chances of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state by building a new colony linking the settlements of Jerusalem with the "Ma'ale Adumim" colony, and the consequent division of the West Bank. West Bank into two separate regions, which means preventing the two-state solution.
Shtayyeh said, "We demand to discourage Israel from proceeding with its colonial and expansionist plans, including presenting plans to build a major industrial zone between the colony of Ariel and the Green Line on the lands of the villages of Sineria, Rafat, and Al-Zawiya, with an area of about 2,700 dunums."
In another context, Shtayyeh said: "The Cabinet looks with great interest at the President's visit to the People's Republic of China, which begins tomorrow at the kind invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. This visit marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Palestinian-Chinese relations, and 35 years of relations Diplomacy between the two friendly countries, and we look forward to its expected outcomes in terms of consolidating and strengthening bilateral relations in all fields.
Regarding the crimes inside the occupied territories, he said: "We look with great pain at the victims of the crimes committed in the lands of 1948, which claimed the lives of more than 100 people since the beginning of the year, among our people inside the occupied territories, and we hold the Israeli authorities fully responsible for the high rate of crimes that did not move to stop them or prosecute their perpetrators." In a racist practice that does not standardize.”
He added: "Israel, as a settler-colonial state, works to destroy the spirit of cohesion in the Palestinian society at home, sows strife, does not impose order, and wants you to always fight each other. We call on our people in the lands of 48 in the name of Palestine and in the name of the souls of your children to spare blood and show reason and wisdom." .
Today, the Council of Ministers will discuss: security and financial issues, issues related to the Old City of Hebron, recommendations related to artificial intelligence, the anti-monopoly law, the state land lease system, social infrastructure projects such as education, health, and physical infrastructure.
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Shtayyeh: The plan to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque will cause unpredictable anger