Jerusalem News Agency - Sources

The head of the Al-Aqsa Academy for Endowment and Heritage, Najeh Bakirat, stressed that the steadfastness of the Jerusalemites foiled the occupation’s plans against Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Bakirat said, “The steadfastness and patience of the people of Jerusalem and their efforts to move towards Al-Aqsa Mosque, filling its squares and rooting for it, is the basic pillar through which the occupation will understand that this mosque is our mosque and cannot be divided into two and is not negotiable.”

He stressed that the people of Jerusalem will not submit to the invalid occupation laws through which the courts implement their violations against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the policy of demolition and displacement in the city of Jerusalem.

He added: “From day one, we said that the Israeli courts that gave them this right are invalid and were established on a false basis. They are occupied courts and we are not subject to their laws.”

He added: “For this reason, there were demonstrations and dozens of martyrs rose at Al-Aqsa, and the Jerusalemite challenge continues in rejection of all these decisions.”

The occupation's excavations under Al-Aqsa recently caused rainwater to seep into the Marwani Chapel, one of the prayer halls of Al-Aqsa Mosque, through holes in its ceiling, due to the occupation preventing the Endowments Department from restoring the prayer halls of the Blessed Mosque.

Stones also fell more than once from the columns, walls and chapels of the mosque, due to the prohibition of restoration inside the mosque.

Dozens of Jerusalemite homes in occupied Jerusalem are threatened with demolition, as the occupation forces in occupied Jerusalem demanded that the owners of six homes vacate them in preparation for their demolition on Sunday.

Jerusalemite activists launched calls for presence and presence in the town of Jabal Mukaber, south of occupied Jerusalem, to confront the demolition massacre after the occupation authorities informed several homes of the need to evacuate them in preparation for their demolition.