Israel offending 1.5 billion Muslims — Qatari FM

28 October 2015, 7:33 pm

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Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Al Attiyah tells Al-Jazeera that the Israeli “provocation” on the Temple Mount is offending 1.5 billion Muslims.

“You are offending 1.5 billion Muslims when you are talking about the Masjid Al Aqsa…and we have raised the flag before,” he says, referring to the Temple Mount compound which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The foreign minister terms the violence in the West Bank “dangerous” and a “third intifada,” and says it could turn into “the worst intifada” thus far.

“The people who went to the street… [were] born after the Oslo Treaty and they saw there is no hope,” he says.