NajehBakirat, director of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, said the Israeli government has officially adopted the project to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque, and started discussing legislations to increase number of Jews who visit Al-Aqsa Mosque.The Hebrew radio revealed that the Knesset on 8 May began to discuss the adoption of a law that allows increasing the number of Jewish settlers who visit Al-Aqsa Mosque.Bakirat pointed, in remarks to Quds Press agency, to the seriousness of this development.
Tel Aviv maintains a defiant stand on the issue of its illegal settlements on Palestinian land as it refuses to freeze settlement expansion. Tel Aviv has come under repeated and widespread international condemnation over the issue. The Israeli regime has approved the construction of 296 new illegal settler units in the so-called Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank, despite international condemnation. An Israeli official said on Thursday that Tel Aviv had given the green light for the settler units, but this was only the first stage of a process before actual construction could begin.