Mahmoud Al-Habash:"Israel is disturbed by the call to prayer because it reminds [Israel] five times a day that this land is Palestinian and a waqf that belongs only to the Muslims"

Al-Habbash: “The call to prayer will be sounded and our mosques are full of believers, despite the occupation's opposition”
     "Supreme  Judge and [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas’] advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs [and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice] Mahmoud Al-Habbash condemned the steps of the occupation with all its institutions – government, parliamentary, and security – against everything Islamic in the holy city [of Jerusalem], especially in everything regarding the decision of the committee of Israeli government ministers to bring the bill banning the sounding of the call to prayer in the mosques to what is called the 'Israeli Parliament' for ratification.

In a press statement in Nov. 14, 2016, Al-Habbash described these steps as steps of oppression and a harsh blow to the freedom of worship… He clarified that these steps will lead the occupation and its leaders to the International Criminal Court as war criminals, especially after the latest resolutions of UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), according to which the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount) is Islamic and the Old City of Jerusalem is an exclusively Islamic heritage [site]. He added that Israel has gone crazy in the wake of UNESCO's latest resolutions…

Al-Habbash noted that Israel is trying to drag the region into a religious war without compromise, whose end is bad and bitter. This is after it lost the legal and historical battle over any right to the Old City and the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary, with all its accompanying buildings, and primarily the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque – the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall).

The Supreme  judge emphasized: 'Our mosques will remain full of believers, and no one in this world will be able to silence the call to prayer as long as there is one Palestinian on this land.' He noted: 'Our mosques precede the occupation state; it has never happened and will never happen that they will not sound the call to prayer.' Likewise, he clarified: 'Israel is disturbed by the call to prayer because it reminds [Israel] five times a day that this land is Palestinian and a waqf (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law) that belongs only to the Muslims."