Five steps on foot is the distance between the house of Jerusalem, Maryam Abu Nijmeh, 39, from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the house is adjacent to the purified door, one of the main doors of the courtyards of the Noble Sanctuary dedicated to the entrance of the male worshipers.
The house of the Jerusalem “Abo Negma” family, consisting of two rooms with an area of 20 meters, is located on the western side of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it shares with the western wall of the sanctuary a large window that enables the family to see the courtyards of the mosque and the golden rock dome directly permanently.
A few days ago, a picture of the Abu Nijmah family kitchen window, directly overlooking Al Aqsa Mosque, spread on social media, and it received wide interaction, which prompted the media to shed light on the home of the Jerusalem family, and recalled the tragedy of this family and the Israeli campaign of greed. It aims to control the home by offering many temptations to the family to take away the historical and archaeological house from it.
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"Emirates Today" met Maryam Abu Nijmeh, a Jerusalem activist, in her house next to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, before the call to prayer of Morocco on the nineteenth of the blessed month of Ramadan, and while preparing breakfast at the kitchen of the house, the scene of the Dome of the Rock was decorating the mosque window as if it was an artistic painting, While the voice of the Noble Qur'an was heard from the minarets of the Temple Mount.
Abu Najmeh asserts that the occupation offered her family in previous periods an open check, in exchange for buying the house because of its proximity to the Temple Mount, pointing out that this is part of the campaign of ethnic cleansing to displace Jerusalemites from the homes adjacent to the wall of the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque.
The Jerusalem activist says: "We are subjected to a massive campaign to seize the occupation of our house at any cost, but we categorically refuse, because despite all the harassment and the small size of the house, we are attached to our historical house that we inherited from my father, while it is enough for us to live and die while we are next to the Messenger of God. Sayyidina Muhammad, peace be upon him, best.
She adds that "the distinguished strategic location of our house made the attention of the occupation authorities tend to control it, to achieve its plan tightly controlling the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and this is the case of dozens of Jerusalem families, who live in houses directly overlooking the Al-Aqsa Mosque and share with it in the northern and western walls."
The ambitions of the occupation to seize the house of the Abu Najma family and the Jerusalem houses adjacent to the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque are paralleled by repeated practices and attacks, whereby the residents are subjected to harassment by the occupation soldiers, who prevent them from leaving and entering completely freely, as well as the attacks of settlers at times of storming the sanctuary of the Temple Mount, according to Abu Najma.
The occupation prevents the Jerusalem families from building and restoring. The Abu Najma family, consisting of the Jerusalemite Maryam Abu Najma, her brother, his wife and his five children, prevents them from building a second floor in their small and old house, or even restoring its dilapidated walls, in addition to preventing them from carrying out repairs to the water lines that leak into the house. Due to cracking of walls.
Maryam Abu Najmeh indicates that the Jerusalemite families adjacent to the wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque face daily disturbances, as the occupation soldiers prevent them from reaching Al-Aqsa gates from their homes at times of closure in front of the worshipers, in addition to inspecting their purchases and their needs and checking identity cards with every entry and exit.
Legacy and march of struggle
The Abu Najma family clings to its home, being an integral part of the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it is directly adjacent to it, as it is a witness to the march of their father's struggle, who worked for many years as a guardian of the Temple Mount, and was detained inside the occupation prisons, so that he died as a martyr after 17 years of detention.
The Jerusalem activist says: "This house is a historical legacy that my father, Naji Abdel Fattah Abu Nijmah, has mercy on us, and God has mercy on him, and every inch inside is a beautiful memory that brought us together with my father, whose lifeless life is a neighbor and guardian of Al-Aqsa Mosque."
And she continued: "My father was arrested in 1968 due to his work as a guard for the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and his struggle to confront the practices of the occupation and settler attacks. He was sentenced to 100 years in prison. After 17 years of his arrest and due to his deteriorating health, the occupation released him, but he died as a martyr immediately after his release.
The Jerusalem activist concluded: "The purified door, one of the doors of the main Al-Aqsa Mosque, adjacent to our house, is currently closed due to the procedures of Corona, but we sit at its doorstep after Morocco, pray, read the Qur’an, and intercede until the time of sahur, in a beautiful scene that inspires peace and comfort within us over time. Despite the ugliness of the occupation practices against the sanctuary and Jerusalemites.