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The Council of Endowments, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites in Jerusalem marked on Wednesday the 55th anniversary of the 1969 arson attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that the crime’s outcome was “still continuing” today, in reference to the numerous raids and attacks carried out by settlers, the army and politicians on the holy site. The council called the events of 1969 a “heinous crime”, with “arsons continuing to this day in forms and dimensions that are no less dangerous in harming the message and identity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque”. It also denounced those “with an extremist mentali…

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