Al-Aqsa Burned 57 Years Ago
Palestine celebrated the 57th anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by a extremist Australian in 1969. The event, remembered by residents, involved a fire that destroyed large parts of the mosque, including its façades, decorations, and windows. The fire also consumed its Islamic manuscripts and artifacts, despite Palestinian efforts to save it amid Israeli occupation obstructions. In recent years, attacks by settlers and incursions into the mosque have increased, alongside escalating Israeli violations and provocations. These include performing Talmudic rituals inside Al-Aqsa, repeated closures, flying Israeli flags, attempts to build synagogues nearby, and targeting the mosque's Islamic identity—part of a broader settler and Judaization campaign aimed at imposing temporal and spatial divisions and transforming the mosque into a battleground for religious and political conflicts. This anniversary serves as a reminder of the waves of violence and assaults on Al-Aqsa, including the 1990 massacre and the Tunnel protests of 1996, which resulted in hundreds of martyrs and wounded. It reflects the ongoing escalation of Judaization campaigns and Israeli aggression against Jerusalem and its holy sites, within a popular Palestinian resistance to preserve the city's Arab and Islamic identity.
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