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Key Historical Milestones

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  1. Completion of the construction of Al-Aqsa Mosque

  2. Completion of the construction of the Dome of the Rock.

  3. The Umayyad caliph initiated the construction of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it was completed by Walid ibn Abdul Malik.

  4. Completion of the construction of Al-Aqsa Mosque

  5. The Crusaders captured Jerusalem, turning the Dome of the Rock into a church, raising their cross on it, and converting the structure of Al-Aqsa Mosque into sta...

  6. Saladin liberated Jerusalem after defeating the Crusaders, purifying the revered Dome of the Rock and the structure of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Crusaders and res...

  7. British General Edmund Allenby occupied Jerusalem, placing the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque under British control.

  8. The Buraq Revolution began as Palestinians defended the Western Wall, resisting Jews attempting to take control.

  9. Jews attacked the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, dropping sixty bombs on its grounds—one hitting the Dome of the Rock and another damaging the structure of Al-Aqsa Mos...

  10. Israeli invasion forces, led by General Mordechai Gur, occupied Jerusalem, taking control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. They raised the Zionis...

  11. Zionist excavations began beneath the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and in its vicinity.

  12. Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Army Shlomo Goren and fifty of his followers held prayers in the courtyard of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

  13. Australian Jewish tourist Michael Rohan, incited by extremist Jewish factions in the government and terrorist organisations, set fire to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mos...

  14. Gush Emunim extremists attempted to storm the mosque, but citizens resisted and thwarted the attempt. Extremist Mayer Kahane and his group tried again with supp...

  15. Israeli police fired a heavy barrage of bullets at Muslim worshippers, resulting in dozens of injuries.

  16. Members of the Temple Mount Faithful movement, accompanied by Rabbi Moshe Levinger and some leaders of the Hatikvah movement, forcibly entered the sacred precin...

  17. Excavations beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque continued, causing a dangerous crack in the Islamic buildings adjacent to the western wall.

  18. A sinful attack on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli soldier Harry Goldstein. The soldier entered the mosque, randomly firing shots, resulting in the martyr...

  19. A Jewish pilot in the air force attempted to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, taking off in his plane with missiles, targeting the mosque. However, his attempt faile...

  20. Israeli forces committed a massacre inside the mosque, resulting in the martyrdom of 22 worshippers and injuring over 200.

  21. A group of Jewish extremists toured the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on the occasion of the Hebrew New Year, and a Jew blew a horn he had near the Gate of Mercy...

  22. About fifty individuals gathered at the entrance of Al-Aqsa Mosque, raising slogans calling for the reconstruction of the Temple in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

  23. Israeli excavations continued southwest of Al-Aqsa Mosque, extending westward with a height between 6 and 9 meters.

  24. Israel seized the opportunity of sewage excavations to conduct new excavations near the Western Wall.

  25. Former judge Menachem Elon called for the division of the holy compound in Jerusalem, considering Al-Aqsa Mosque as the alleged Temple.

  26. The use of the Dome of the Rock in a promotional campaign for tourism in Israel in an announcement by the Ministry of Tourism of the Israeli occupation state.

  27. Damian Vakopich, an Israeli right-wing activist, revealed plans, according to his confessions, to carry out a large-scale bombing operation to destroy the bless...

  28. The Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the so-called Temple Mount custodians to enter the sacred precincts of Jerusalem.

  29. Israeli authorities closed a window in the old wall of Al-Aqsa, opened until identification and moisture treatment.

  30. Revelation of Israeli plans to demolish the Umayyad palaces adjacent to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and expand the Western Wall (Al-Buraq Wall) to Judaize the ar...

  31. Revelation of Jewish extremist groups resuming attempts, ongoing for years, to seize a piece of land in the holy sanctuary of Jerusalem, despite its registratio...

  32. Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon provocatively visits Al-Aqsa Mosque, stating that Israel controls the area and will not give it to the Palestinians because it i...

  33. Part of the road leading to the Gate of the Moors in the wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque collapses under the pressure of excavations and due to the continued prevention...

  34. Israeli occupation police complete the installation of the security field around Al-Aqsa Mosque, consisting of 19 cameras installed on all gates except the Gate...

  35. After ten years of excavations under Al-Aqsa, the occupation authorities inaugurated a site considered the first of its kind in the underground of the mosque, c...

  36. The Israeli Antiquities Authority claims to have discovered a wide road dating back to the Second Temple period, extending between Silwan and Al-Buraq Square be...

  37. The occupation authorities begin the removal of the Moroccan Road, which was prevented from being renovated on the pretext of protecting Jewish worshippers in A...

  38. Large groups of settlers, rabbis, and Israeli politicians, under strict police guard, carry out collective intrusions and provocative marches into the holy sanc...

  39. A group of thirty disguised Jewish extremists infiltrate the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Talmudic rituals inside the mosque near the Gate of Mercy.

  40. Explosive experts from the Israeli police, part of the unit called "Explosives Experts," invade the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and take a tour inside its courtyards...

  41. On the ninth anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, confrontations occurred inside the sacred compound of Jerusalem and at its gates between Palestinian citizens,...

  42. Israeli occupation forces close the entrances to Al-Aqsa Mosque, demanding that dozens of Palestinians who are inside surrender themselves. Several Palestinians...

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