国际英语资讯:West Bank, East Jerusalem clashes continue over Al-Aqsa mosque measures_时事

国际英语资讯:West Bank, East Jerusalem clashes continue over Al-Aqsa mosque measures

The daily clashes have reflected a unified position led by the top Muslim clerics in Jerusalem, who ordered worshippers not to use the gates to enter to Al-Aqsa mosque.

As a result, hundreds of Palestinian men and women showed up at the gates to hold public prayers and sit-ins until the Israeli government would remove the gates.

Coordinator of Islamic and National Factions in Ramallah Governorate Issam Baker told Xinhua that "the issue is well beyond ten days, for years. The occupation state has been trying to bring the Palestinian people to it's knees and impose unilateral solutions, but there are angry youth and an entire generation is frustrated that is breaking out as waves of outrage in the face of the occupation."

Baker warned that "harming the Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem and especially Al-Aqsa mosque, which has been subject to daily raids, excavations, enforcing new gates and humiliating human dignity, defies all spiritual and man made laws."

Many believe that Israel has for long planned to take over Al-Aqsa mosque, through controlling the access into the Muslim shrine by using the shooting attack on July 14 as a pretext to break the historic status quo in the old city.