[ 07/04/2009 - 10:36 AM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage revealed Monday that the Zionist state stole historical blocks of stone from the Aqsa Mosque and put one of them in front of the Knesset (parliament) building in occupied Jerusalem.
The Aqsa foundation explained that the Israeli occupation authority stole a number of stone blocks that were put three meters away from the southern wall of the holy Mosque, adding that it managed to sneak behind the fence that the IOA established around the site and found some blocks stripped off their places.
It added that the IOA had pitched a black tent in the site and prevented anyone from approaching or taking photographs in order to gradually and secretly commit its crime.
The foundation pointed out that one of the blocks was taken to an unknown destination and another was taken to the Knesset building, adding that the Zionists could have changed the features of the blocks.
The foundation was able to take photographs of one of the stolen blocks that was placed outside the Knesset building.
For his part, Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, stated that Israel is a master at all kinds of robbery and forgery, where it steals and loots the Palestinian land, and tries to forge the Palestinian history.
Sheikh Khatib added that the Zionists try to cover up the sun with a sieve through stealing Islamic and Arab antiquities and then claiming they are from the alleged remains of their temple, asserting that all excavations and diggings around and under the Aqsa Mosque carried out by the Zionists did not lead them to any sign showing that there had been a temple in the place of the Aqsa Mosque.
In another development, a delegation from the Jerusalemite popular committee visited on Monday the area of Umayyad palaces in the southeastern wall of occupied Jerusalem to witness the violations committed by Israeli official sides and settlers, the latest of which was the transfer of a large stone block from its place in the wall to an unknown location.
The delegation deplored the blatant serial forgery of Islamic antiquities and the brainwashing of tourists through alleging that many antiquities date back to the first and second temples.
Ihab Al-Jallad, a member of the Jerusalemite committee, told the PIC reporter that a group of Zionist settlers kept coming to the southern wall of Jerusalem and slipping rolls into chinks in the wall while Jewish societies make documentary movies in the wall area to forge historical facts.
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