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Jeddah – Recent placement of glass room in Al-Aqsa courtyard is \u2018first step\u2019 towards \u2018spatial division\u2019 of mosque, OIC warns.<\/strong><\/p>\n Israel has begun partitioning East Jerusalem\u2019s Al-Aqsa Mosque complex with a view to creating a prayer space for Jewish worshippers, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Wednesday. <\/p>\n \u201cThe placement of a glass room inside the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex is a first step toward the spatial division of the mosque,\u201d Ahmad al-Ruwaidhi, the OIC\u2019s representative in Palestine, said at a Wednesday press conference. <\/p>\n The move, he asserted, \u201cfollows the imposition of a temporal division [by Israel] in the form of daily incursions [into Al-Aqsa] by Jewish settlers\u201d.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, the move reveals \u201cIsrael\u2019s intention to dedicate a place for Talmudic rituals inside the Al-Haram al-Sharif,\u201d al-Ruwaidhi said, using the Arabic term for the Al-Aqsa Mosque. <\/p>\n The OIC representative also warned of the dangers posed by Israeli excavations that are reportedly being carried out under the holy site. <\/p>\n In light of these excavations, al-Ruwaidhi said, \u201cwe fear the Al-Aqsa Mosque could collapse in the event of a natural — or artificial — earthquake\u201d. \u201cClaims put forward this week by the Israeli magistrate’s court — that Al-Aqsa is a holy place for Jews — is completely false and not supported by evidence,\u201d he said. Some extremist Jewish groups have called for the Al-Aqsa Mosque\u2019s destruction so a Jewish temple might be built in its place. <\/p>\n In late 2000, a visit to the site by Israeli politician Ariel Sharon sparked what later became known as the “Second Intifada”, a popular uprising against Israel\u2019s decades-long occupation in which thousands of Palestinians were killed. <\/p>\n Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeddah – Recent placement of glass room in Al-Aqsa courtyard is \u2018first step\u2019 towards \u2018spatial division\u2019 of mosque, OIC warns. World Bulletin Israel has begun partitioning East Jerusalem\u2019s Al-Aqsa Mosque complex with a view to creating a prayer space for Jewish worshippers, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Wednesday. \u201cThe placement of a glass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[449,190,645,646],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-al-aqsa","tag-jerusalem","tag-jewish-invasion","tag-organization-of-islamic-cooperation"],"views":990,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}World Bulletin<\/h2>\n
\nSheikh Muhammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, for his part, reiterated the Islamic identity of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. <\/p>\n
\nFor Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world’s third holiest site. Jews, for their part, refer to the area as the “Temple Mount,” claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times. <\/p>\n