Cleric Warns of Intensified Israeli Attempts to Wrest Full Control over Al-Quds
The Zionist officials have accelerated their excavation projects under Al-Aqsa Mosque and are constructing commercial buildings near the mosque, he said, aliwaa.com website reported.
He added that such moves are aimed at destroying Islamic buildings and sites in Jerusalem al-Quds and wresting full control over the city.
The occupying regime has always sought to find antiquities related to their ancient history and these excavations started in the 18th century through British archeologist groups that were pretending to search for antiquities, but their real intents were to prove any Jewish connection to Jerusalem, he said.
The regime has not found a single stone related to the ancient Hebrew history despite the huge excavations and the millions which it has spent to falsify history, the senior cleric added.
In a statement last month, Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli excavations and called them “an extension of the Israeli plans to Judaize the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings.”
The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has also recently censured the Israeli regime over attempts to change the geographic and demographic character of occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
Hamas attributed increasing settlement activities in al-Quds to normalization agreements between some Arab countries and Israel, emphasizing that such accords had emboldened the regime to annex more Palestinian lands.
