The Israeli Army prevents the British Secretary of State from going to the Al Aqsa Mosque for half an hour

12 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli Army has blocked the passage for about half an hour to the United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Middle East, Tariq Ahmad, who wanted to access the Al Aqsa Mosque as part of his official trip to Jerusalem.

As reported by the BBC, Ahmad had to wait for 30 minutes with a delegation of British officials at a checkpoint near the gate of the mosque. The Israeli military prevented him from entering for half an hour despite the fact that the visit had been officially coordinated with the Department of Affairs of the Al Aqsa Mosque and Awqaf of Jerusalem.

“The Israeli authorities only want people to coordinate with them, through the Israeli government, only through the Israeli side,” said the director of the Department, Sheikh Mohamed Azam al Khatib, who has called the event “unacceptable “.

Apart from this, Ahmed has visited a school in the West Bank city of Hebron, run by the United Nations agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) at the same time that he has also met with the Palestinian prime minister, Mohamad Shtaye, in Ramallah.

“I announced £3.7m funding for UNRWA to provide much-needed emergency food assistance to Gaza. This will support the provision of food assistance to 1.2 million of the most vulnerable Gazans,” He explained on his Twitter profile.