Erdogan slams Israel list of Jewish sites

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Mosque of Bilal Ibn Rabah, "will forever be Islamic and will never be part of the Jewish heritage." In an interview to a Saudi paper published on Sunday, he said: "Palestine is our case did it is not out of our agenda in any given day."

Erdogan, who described Palestine as an open prison, urged Palestinians to unite and end their internal division "because it is not in favor of the Palestinians, but in the the interest of their enemies. He added:" I love my brothers in Fatah And my brothers in Hamas wherever they are."

The Turkish Prime Minister also stressed the necessity of lifting the siege on Gaza, saying "the Gaza Strip crossings did not allow the process of reconstruction after the devastating war and here I urge the Islamic world to take a serious steps In this area. "

Last week, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem n the list of Jewish historical sites. The Israeli move sparked riots in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Ibrahimi Mosque is considered the fourth most important Islamic mosque after the Holy Mosques in Makkah and Medina and Al Aqsa mosque.

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