:THE MOST RECENT ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE The last of the attempts to penetrate the AI-Haram Al-Sharif was that which took place on 11 March 1983 and which was carried out by approximately 45 settlers belonging to the racist extremist Kach movement, most of them living in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron. They intended to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque through a secret tunnel not yet uncovered by excavation and were equipped with large amounts of weapons and explosives for the purpose of blowing up the AI­ Aqsa Mosque and establishing a Jewish settlement on its ruins. However, the attempt failed, and the members of the group were arrested. They confessed that the operation had been planned by Jewish religious leaders, including Meir Kahane, Moshe Levinger and Israel Ariel, and that the leaders had held meetings at Kiryat Arba with the members of this group that had been entrusted with the task of blowing up the AI-Aqsa Mosque. A quick count of the attempts made so far to break into the AI-Aqsa Mosque and penetrate its courtyards, and of the state­ ments in which extremists among Jewish religious leaders announce their resolve to continue the endeavour to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque and establish the Temple on its ruins gives an indication of the truth regarding Jewish designs on this Mosque and the other Islamic and Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem and the various parts of the West Bank. The instance of the attempt to explode a bomb in the Qazzazin Mosque at Hebron a few days ago is but a further indication of the degree of gravity that the situation in the occupied territories has reached and the seriousness of the dangers that threaten the citizens and the Arab and Islamic cultural presence in the occupied territories. DOCUMENT S/15643 
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