PA official: Israel planning to blow up Al-Aqsa

Former PA minister of religious affairs, Mahmoud al-Habash warned Thursday that Israel is planning to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

Habash cited pictures by an aircraft equipped with a camera that flew over the mosque.

Now a consultant to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Habash said the plot to bomb Al-Aqsa is being planned by extremist Jewish organizations and may be carried out by launching a drone with a large amount of explosives or a small plane being flown by a Jewish suicide bomber.

Habash called on the international community and the Arab and Muslim world to immediately intervene to save the mosque from the impending danger and to force the Israeli occupation to stop its crimes against the holy places to Islam in Palestine.

In addition, he called on Arabs and Muslims all over the world come to al-Quds to protect it from the Israeli occupation which seeks to Judaize the city.