Director of the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs Department of Preacher Training Sheikh Majed Saqr: 

“Especially on Monday (i.e., Jerusalem Day), the settlers want to come in and defile [the Al-Aqsa Mosque]… Everyone who can come to the Al-Aqsa Mosque to carry out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict) and pray, old or young, male or female - we must defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque … [We must] teach my son and yours, my daughter and yours about what the Al-Aqsa Mosque is, how [the Israelis] are working to Judaize it, how they are working to divide it, how they are planning to destroy it and build the alleged Temple. This is a religious obligation and a national obligation.”

The Director of the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs Department of Preacher Training made this statement during ongoing Arab riots in Jerusalem