Israeli faithful more and more about the Saint Muslim place, in violation of the status quo in force since 1967 which stipulates that non-Muslims have the right to go there, but without praying.
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In electric blue suit and moccasins, Azzam al-Khatib jumps on the marble pavers of the path that goes up towards the immense golden cupola of the Rock Dome, on the esplanade of the mosques in Jerusalem. The Director of WAQF, the Muslim religious foundation that administers the holy places, passes the head under the quasi-loan olive branches for harvest. He is worried. On Monday, October 18, surrounded by guards, he follows a group of Jewish faithful who complete their morning prayer.
Since the end of September, Mr. Al-Khatib denounces these groupings. In a broadcast communiqué broadcast through Palestine, he lamented the rise in the incursions of militant Jewish faithful on the third holy place of Islam. The manager accuses the Israeli policemen, who frame them and protect them, to transform the Al-Aqsa enclosure (called by the Jews Mount of Temple, with reference to the two temples, that of Solomon and that of Herod, who were Erected according to the Jewish tradition at this location) in “a military barrack”. In passing, the director recalls that Al-Aqsa “is a mosque for Muslims and can not be divided or shared”.
The indignation of Mr. Al Khatib is the fruit of years of more discreet ruminations. A long-standing radicals to break the “status quo”, the unwanted regulation of the places, forged after the conquest of the old town of Jerusalem by Israel in 1967, stipulating that non-Muslims have the right to go on the Mont du Temple, the most holy place of Judaism, but without praying. Their efforts, supported by the Israeli authorities, start paying.
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According to OFER ZALZBERG, from the Kelman Institute for Conflict Transformation, the Israeli police chose to authorize their prayers as early as 2016, under the government of Benyamin Netanyahu, without giving them too much advertising. Gradually, the system has been roded. The ritual is now almost daily, open, visible. This situation is flammable.
In the past decade, it is in Al-Aqsa that all the Palestinian highlights are born. Especially the one who caused the last war of Gaza, in May. “Jewish extremists are trying to change the situation on the ground, and that only worsen under the new Israeli government, [led by Naftali Bennett and set up in June]. It’s a barrel of powder ready to Explode, “says the number two of the WAQF, Najih Bkirat.
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