History of masjid al-aqsa: The Reason of Conflict in Masjid al Aqsa

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This film traces the history of the masjid al-aqsa compound and its significance to both Muslims and Jews.

Masjid Al Aqsa is in the Old City of Jerusalem, surrounded by a stone wall on all four sides.It is also called as Bayt al-Maqdis (Al-Aqsa) which literally means the holy/sacred house.  Al-Aqsa Mosque is the entire piece of land surrounded by the walls. Part of the Mosque’s western wall (al-Buraq wall) was confiscated by Israel in 1967 and called Wailing Wall of Jewish shrine.

It is recognisable by the famous golden roof of the Dome of the Rock at its centre.The compound also contains the grey-domed Al-Qabali Mosque which is also widely known as Masjid Al Aqsa The whole compound is considered the third holiest site in Islam and is referred to by the Israelis as Temple Mount.

After World War I, Palestine was placed under interim British rule. Under the promises made in the Balfour Declaration, Britain was already committed to facilitate the founding of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine and began granting land to the Zionist movement to build settlements.

In 1929, Palestinians demonstrated against these settlements at theAl-Buraq Wall on the western side of the compound – now known asthe Western Wall.

Palestinians had begun to realise what increased Zionist influence inthe region would mean, and their protests led to the Al-Buraq Revolution of 1929: “The first real revolution on Palestinian land,”according to the Palestinian researcher Ziad al-Hassan.

The site has been a centre of tension and attacks ever since. In 1969,an Australian evangelical Christian, Dennis Rohan, set fire to the Al-Qabali Mosque. Many of the mosque’s most important features,including a pulpit dating back to the 12th century, were destroyed. Rohan was tried for arson but was found to be clinically insane.

On Black Monday, October 8, 1990, 20 Palestinians were killed,according to UN figures, in what’s known as the Al-Aqsa Massacre.

Sixty-three people died in the Kotel Tunnel incident in September 1996, in protests over the opening of a new tunnel by the Israelis under the Western Wall.

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The second Intifada in 2000, started at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

More recently, confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the compound, sparked in part by incursions by Israeli Organisations, have led to wider clashes and an escalation in violence in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

This film traces the history of the masjid al-aqsa a and its significance to both Muslims and Jews.It looks at the division of Jerusalem after the founding of Israel in 1948;and the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War when Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the whole of the West Bank.

It examines the treatment of Palestinians at the mosque compound and proposals by Israeli politicians to divide the site, despite the fact that the Israeli government repeatedly insists it does not want fundamental changes there.

The government is also now accused of funding groups which support major changes as to who can pray at the site. This has provoked more tension with security forces sometimes violently cracking down on Palestinian protesters and worshippers.

The film also looks at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron – where Israel controls Palestinian access and has imposed access and prayer restrictions – and asks whether this is the shape of things to come at Masjid Al Aqsa.

Source: Aljazeera

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