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During the June1967 war, the Israelis bombarded the Holy City of
Jerusalem. The central gate of Al Aqsa mosque was shattered. One of
the Al Aqsa minarets received a direct hit
And
its dome was damaged. After the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967,
Israelis held demonstrations, dancing festivals and immoral parties
in the sacred area of Haram Al-Sherif. The gates of the Dome of the
Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque were opened for Jewish tourists of both
sexes with their dogs. Men and women entered these holy places
dressed in shorts and committed acts of indecency, disrespect and
desecration.
Israel dynamited 135 buildings and Mosques owned by Muslim Waqfs in
old Jerusalem in order to clear the way for a square in front of Al
Buraq, the Western Wall of Al Aqsa Mosque.
On
August 26, 1967, fourteen Muslim and Christian leaders of Jerusalem
submitted a memorandum to the personal representative of the
Secretary-General of the United Nations in which they described the
desecration by Israelis of Muslim and Christian Holy Places.
Paragraph 7 of that memorandum states:
The
Israeli authorities did not respect the sanctity of Muslim and
Christian religious shrines and thus forced the custodian of the
Holy Places to close some of the churches. Moreover, the Chief Rabbi
of the Israeli army. Brigadier Goren, conducted a prayer, together
with some followers, in the Haram Al-Sherif (Holy Mosque), thus
blatantly offending Muslim susceptibilities and infringing upon
their established rights, while the Minister for religions in Israel
announced that the Muslim Mosque is Jewish property, and that sooner
or later they will rebuild their temple there. Finally, the Minister
of religious Affairs announced its intention of expanding the
Wailing Wall area by destroying some of the Muslim buildings
surrounding it, and constructing a synagogue there, in contravention
of the status quo, and in an outright violation of the rights of
Muslims and Muslim Waqf.
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