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Hamas decries allowing Israeli ‘silent prayer’ on al-Aqsa Mosque compound

Wednesday, 06 October 2021 7:03 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 06 October 2021 7:03 PM ]

Undated picture shows a Palestinian helping another after Israeli forces raid the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound in the holy occupied city of al-Quds. (Photo by AFP)

Hamas decries an Israeli court’s decision to give Israeli settlers more excuses to storm the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound by granting them the right to “perform silent prayers” on the site.

Speaking on Wednesday, the Palestinian resistance movement’s spokesman, Hazem Qassem, said the decision “constitutes a flagrant aggression against al-Aqsa Mosque.”

The ruling, he added, also amounted to “a step on the path of the temporal and spatial division of the mosque, which is a flagrant violation of all human laws and norms.”

Earlier, the judge at the Magistrates Court in the holy occupied city of al-Quds, Bilha Yahalom, said that the alleged form of prayer “cannot be considered a ‘criminal act.’”

The compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, is located in the Old City of East al-Quds, which the Israeli regime occupied as part of the entire Palestinian territory of the West Bank during a war in 1967.