OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Zahi Nujaidat, the spokesman of the Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands, has warned on Tuesday that walls of the Aqsa Mosque could crack if the Israeli occupation government pursued the construction of the controversial bridge on the ruins of the Magharba gate.

He described the Israeli decision of building the bridge as "serious", and would have bad repercussions on the Aqsa Mosque and on the occupied city of Jerusalem, explaining that the bridge, in the event it is completed, would allow thousands of IOF troops and policemen to terrorize the worshippers, and to dominate Jerusalem and the Mosque.

Nujaidat's remarks came in press statements he issued on Tuesday in the occupied city of Jerusalem, and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC.

"All the destruction and demolition works at the Magharba gate were leading to one and only one goal that is to build the alleged Third temple, which became a point of consensus among Israel's politicians, seculars, and religious figures", underlined Nujaidat as he urged Muslims around the globe to mobilize their potentials in defense of the Mosque.

For his part, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, the head of the Higher Islamic Council, rejected the Israeli decision, and described it as "illegal", urging the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to immediately interfere to protect historic buildings in the occupied city.

Seconding Nujaidat and Sabri's remarks, the Quds (Jerusalem) committee in the PA ministry of Awkaf (endowment) in the Gaza Strip invited the Palestinian people inside the green line (the 1948-occupoied Palestinian lands) and Palestinian Jerusalemites to intensify their presence in the Aqsa Mosque and to frequent it round-the-clock in order to protect it against the malicious Israeli plans.