After the Jerusalemites succeeded in extracting the decision to reopen the Bab Al-Rahma chapel in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the 22nd of the year 2019, after a fierce judicial battle with the occupation courts that extended since 2003, the Israeli government is seeking to close it, in an attempt to impose its control on the Temple Mount, And its patios, the restrictions on Jerusalemites.
The occupation issued a decision to re-close the Bab al-Rahma chapel on Thursday, 2 July, to be matched by a wave of Palestinian anger and widespread anger, and an absolute insistence not to close the chapel, as religious references in the city of Quds Al-Sharif confirm that the Bab al-Rahma chapel is an integral part of Al-Aqsa Mosque The blessed one, which belongs only to Muslims.
The lens «Emirates Today» toured the vicinity of the chapel of Bab al-Rahma, located on the eastern side of the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque, where large squares, olive trees, fruitful and fruitful, planted hundreds of years ago in large numbers, and adjacent to the terraces leading to the historic chapel, while the occupation soldiers were standing nearby From him, while the Jerusalemites were arriving to him at the time of the Maghrib call to pray at the Bab al-Rahma chapel, and eating breakfast after fasting during the day on Monday 20 of July.
“The elements of the occupation forces do not leave the chapel of the door of mercy and its surroundings around the 24-hour period, where they are stationed all the time, to restrict the Jerusalemites arriving to pray on the Temple Mount, through the historic gates of mercy and repentance leading to The chapel of the door of mercy directly.
And she pointed out that the occupation forces are deployed daily around the clock, inside the courtyards of the Temple Mount and in the vicinity of the chapel of the Bab al-Rahma and the gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and after the occupation’s decision to re-close the door of mercy, the number of its members increased in the vicinity of the historic door without interruption for one moment.
The Occupation Police Directorate in Al-Quds Al-Sharif city sent Yoon, the second Thursday of July, a letter addressed to the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem regarding the issuance of a decision by the Occupation Court to close the chapel to the door of mercy, and set a short deadline to appeal the decision before taking effect.
The director of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Omar Al-Kiswani, said that the occupation informed the Islamic Endowments Department in Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city of Jerusalem of the decision to renew the closure of the Bab Al-Rahma mosque, in Israeli attempts, to achieve political goals for the extreme right.
The director of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque indicates that the occupation asked the Islamic Endowments Department to submit an appeal to the decision, indicating that this is an attempt to provoke the feelings of Muslims and measure the size of popular anger in the Palestinian street.
For its part, the Islamic Endowments Department in the city of Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque confirm that they do not resort to the occupation courts, adding, “These courts are not competent and not competent, and this is what the Supreme Islamic Authority decided since June 1967.”