Fuente : Palestinian National Authority
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PALESTINE: Thousands of Palestinians Renew Pledge to Defend Al Aqsa Mosque

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GAZA, August 7, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - About 50 thousand Palestinian citizens renewed homage to defend Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the fourth festival of Al-Aqsa Child's Fund, which took place in the square of the Dome of Rock. Where they, showed their readiness to strain every never in an effort to save it from the imminent dangers.


The participants thronged in the square of Al-Aqsa Mosque after hey had finished the noon prayer, amidst military and police precautionary measures imposed by the Israeli occupation forces near the gates of the Old City and the holy place of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

His eminence, Sheikh Ekrema Sabry, the General Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine and the head of the Higher Islamic Committee; Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the manager and orator of Al-Aqsa Mosque; Sheikh Kamal El-Khateeb, the vice-president of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian territories (occupied in 1948); Sheikh Hamid El-Betawi, head of Palestine Scholars League; Sheikh Hashem Abd El-Rahman, head of Aumelfahem Municipality and Ahmad Zagheer, the Palestinian legislator, took part in this festival.

The opening speech was delivered by the Sheikh Abd El-Rahman Abu El-Haija (one of the leaders of the Islamic Movements in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948) and by the Sheikh Reyad Mahmoud. The children of Al-Aqsa Mosque Fund partook in multifarious activities in which they revealed their talents, recited Qur'an and some poems of Al-Aqsa mosque as well as other various artistic shows.

Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement, greeted in a telephone call, as he was unable to reach the festival place because of the Israeli occupation prevention, the great hordes of people, not least the children.

"You are swarming today to be the efficient repellency against whoever his sinister designs propel him to have an attempt against Al-Aqsa Mosque," he said.

He also added, "the childhood of the participants who took part in this festival for the fourth time respectively, do not rule them out from having their duties towards Al-Aqsa Mosque."

Sheikh Salah greeted also, the Committee of the Religious Endowments, and the Reconstruction Committee, which still lavish Al-Aqsa Mosque with their care.

Sheikh Salah declared, that the High Observation Committee for the Arab Public called on people who lived inside the Green Line to gather (on the levels of both the leaderships and the grassroots) in the 14th of this month to make a common cause against the settlers who unmasked their designs to horde on the same mentioned date.

Sheikh Salah called both the Arab and the Islamic nations to hang together in order to defend the Holy Mosque.

Al-Eatisam ensemble (from Kfar Kana) sang its renowned song "o' Aqsa you are not lonely), where hundred of thousands of people repeated after them, followed by the words of "God is the greatest."

Sheikh Sabry stressed through his words in the festival, that the great hordes which arrived to the place justify the extent of the love of the growing generation they keep for Al-Aqsa Mosque.

He called people to tread the steps of Al-Aqsa Association in its advocacy for the Holy Mosque the citizens of Jerusalem.

Sheikh Sabry said also, that the public throng in this occasion is considered as the best repellency against the continuous threats made against Al-Aqsa mosque, stressing that the festival proved that the deems of the extremist Jewish of causing damage to the holy mosque will not come true.

He also called people who live in the Green Line to gather on the 14th of the running month to ward off the unrestrained extremists who intimidate of breaking into the holy mosque in the commemoration of the so-called "David Temple". notas_de_prensa_archivo