Press Release
The Guardians of Al-Quds in Masjid Al-Aqsa Reject Al-Habbash Following the Example of the People of Tulkarm, Hebron and the Rest of the West Bank Cities
(Translated)

Last Friday, Al-Habbash attempted to enter Masjid Al-Aqsa through a "sacred" permission and security coordination according to the head of the Palestinian Authority with the occupation. He was obstructed by the people of Al-Quds who are guarding the Masjid Al-Aqsa and was not allowed to enter especially after his guards, and malicious thugs tried to make a force entry; they used pepper spray against the honourable guardians of the Masjid who resorted to hurling him with their shoes, and he left defeated and in humiliation guarded by the occupation police force.

We in Hizb ut Tahrir are in support of the guardians and defendants of Al-Aqsa with their bare chests, facing the raids of the occupation and settlers and the deceitful politicians from the scheming nations and those who are the likes of Al-Habbash who wants to normalise relations with the occupation and invite Muslims to follow suit with the pretext of visiting the Masjid, instead of calling for its liberation. We affirm our rejection to the statements of the Palestinian Authority and the statements of Al-Habbash on the whole and in detail, and we confirm the following:

Those who obstructed Al-Habbash are the people of Al-Quds, the guardians and defendants of Al-Aqsa, they are not part of the thugs, and they are honourable and stand unabated in the face of the raids of the occupation. They represent the people of Palestine in rejection of the Palestinian Authority's policy concerning Al-Quds and its sanctities, and in rejection of Al-Habbash's disgraceful statements which equates between the occupation and the oppressed people of Palestine.

The attempts of Al-Habbash and the PA to affiliate this action to Hizb ut Tahrir or Hamas is the ultimate attempt in fooling the people of Palestine who are in agreement on the lawlessness of the agent Al-Habbash and his corruption and collaboration with the occupation and the American Administration, but the PA is blinding itself from the reality of the opinion of the street and the public opinion. They forgot that Al-Quds rejected Saddat, Mahir, and rejects Al-Habbash and the likes, attesting to the promise of Allah (swt):

[أُولَئِكَ مَا كَانَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوهَا إِلاَّ خَائِفِينَ لَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا خِزْيٌ وَلَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيم]

"... It is not for them to enter them except in fear. For them in this world is disgrace, and they will have in the Hereafter a great punishment" [Al-Baqara: 114]

The people of Palestine in the cities of the West bank have previously raised slogans and placards that condemn Al-Habbash and his vulgar statements, and his repeated attempts to plant Fitna among the people of Palestine, and his attempts to transform the Minbars of the Masajid to platforms belonging to him and the PA.  They stopped him from entering Al-Khalil, Tulkarm, and other cities in the West Bank. If the PA had any sense of shame, it would have put him in prison instead of handing him the ministerial posts. They kept him regardless of their knowledge of his crimes; this is in support for his disregard to the Ummah and its sanctities. From this platform, we proclaim that:

The PA must realise that America and the Jews will not protect them from the Ummah's anger. It must take heed and be warned from this incident and others before the people of Palestine explode with anger in in its face and in the face of their men and their criminal policies against Palestine and its people, then regret will be of no benefit and hellfire is more severe and harsher if they knew.

[إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحَادُّونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُولَئِكَ فِي الْأَذَلِّينَ * كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَرُسُلِي إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ]

"Indeed, the ones who oppose Allah and His Messenger - those will be among the most humbled. Allah has written, "I will surely overcome, I and My messengers." Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might." [Al-Mujadila: 20-21]

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