Hamdallah Becomes First Palestinian PM to Visit al-Aqsa
New Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah visited al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, in a first for a serving Palestinian premier, the official WAFA news agency reported.
Al-Aqsa mosque is Islam's third holiest site.
"Jerusalem is a symbol of the Palestinian question," Hamdallah told the agency.
"Our visit today shows how important Jerusalem is to the Palestinian government."
WAFA said Hamdallah also met the mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Hussein, and visited al-Maqased hospital in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem.
The new Palestinian government headed by Hamdallah was sworn in on June 6 in Ramallah in the West Bank.
17 June 2013, 15:43
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For thousands of years the Jews have been saying "Next Year in Jerusalem".
Jerusalem is mentioned in the Bible over 600 times, 2500 years before Mohammed.
Jerusalem is mentioned in the Koran how many times - you guessed right - 0 (NIL)
19 June 2013, 13:10
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Actually philippo, jerusalem is mentioned in the quran, hadith and islamic history. So why do you lie? And Palestine is mentioned in the bible so whats your point? Next year in jerusalem was about religion and not ethnicity. What rights do russians and ethiopians and other non-palestinian jews have to steal palestine? Its like russian and ethiopian muslims stealing saudi arabia. Do you believe your own words or are you only following the propaganda script handed to you?
19 June 2013, 13:48
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Islamic history only started in 622AD at the time of the prophet Mohammed, Jewish history in Jerusalem and Palestine (you actually refuse to the Philistines) began 2500 years before that.
How many of the dark-skinned "Palestinians" in Gaza, Egypt, the West Bank and Jordan actually came from the deserts of Nubia. There are no pure dark-skinned Palestinians.
By the way, if you would read up carefully you would also find that the Russian "Circassian" Moslems, who are now amongst the guards of HM King Abdallah of Jordan, only came to the Middle East less than 200 years ago.
19 June 2013, 13:49
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sorry, Line 2 of my previous response. Not "refuse" should be "refer".
19 June 2013, 13:12
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No asaf, thats nothing like that because beirut belongs to lebanon while jerusalem does not belong to israel, jerusalem belongs to palestine. Every city and town you refer to as israel belongs to palestine. And the Golan belongs to syria.
