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Mufti says Al-Aqsa Mosque ‘always existed’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Ahmed Hussein says he cannot comment on the US-brokered plan to install video surveillance at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third-holiest site in Islam.
The Temple Mount is also considered by Jews to be the holiest site in Judaism and home to the biblical Jewish Temples.
“It is still a plan, the Waqf will decide in the end,” he says in an interview with Channel 2.
He adds that the Jews have no right to ascend to the Temple Mount, as, he claimed, the site was always home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
“The Al-Aqsa Mosque existed since 3,000 years ago… and 30,000 years ago and since the creation of the world,” the mufti says.
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