Hamas warns of dividing, internationalizing the Aqsa

Hamas warns of dividing, internationalizing the Aqsa

[ 29/08/2009 - 08:47 AM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas Movement has warned of attempts to divide the holy Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews and to internationalize the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Hamas in a statement on Friday declared absolute rejection of the American idea of turning Jerusalem into an open city for all religions, calling on the world community not to legitimize such a "serious plot".

It also refused the Israeli plan of converting the control over the Aqsa Mosque from the Jordanian endowment department to the Israeli archeology department.

Hamas asked former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas not to provide political cover for the Israeli measures against the holy city and to halt all public and covert negotiations and security coordination with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA).

It warned that the judaization schemes against Jerusalem had reached an unprecedented stage as more excavations were being carried out under the Aqsa and in its vicinity other than the confiscation of lands around the Mosque in a bid to impose Jewish presence and to bolster IOA security control.

For its part, the international Quds institution charged in a press conference on Thursday that the IOA attacks on the holy site had increased four folds compared to last year.

It said that the IOA started five new excavations under the holy site in 2009 bringing the number of excavations under and around the site to 25 while the storming operations reached 43 including one by the Israeli internal security minister, the highest ranking official figure to storm the site since its occupation in 1967.

The institution warned that dividing the holy Aqsa Mosque was only waiting for the opportune moment to impose it.

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