PA daily reports libel, saying that Israel tried to prevent firefighting efforts during the 1969 Al-Aqsa Mosque arson
Headline: “52 years since the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the crime continues”
“Today, Saturday, August 21 [2021], is the 52nd anniversary of the burning of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque (see note below -Ed.). On this day in 1969, an extremist Jewish terrorist with Australian citizenship named Michael Denis [Rohan] (sic., Rohan was an Australian Christian with a mental health disorder) invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque and deliberately set the eastern part of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire…
At the time, our people succeeded in saving what remained of the Al-Aqsa Mosque before the fire reached it, after the fire engines hurried from Hebron and Bethlehem and different areas in the West Bank and in the Arab municipalities in order to save the Al-Aqsa Mosque (sic., Israeli firefighters put out the fire, not Palestinian firefighters). This was despite the Israeli occupation authorities’ attempts to prevent them from doing this and to stop the water in the area around the mosque on the day of the fire (sic., Israeli firefighters arrived within minutes but rioting Muslims interfered with their work and broke the only fire hydrant at the site; PMW found no evidence for claims that Israel cut off the water). The fire engines of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem also deliberately delayed so as not to participate in putting out the fire (sic.).”
Michael Rohan - Australian Christian with a mental health disorder who set fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969. For years, the Palestinian Authority has falsely accused Israel of setting the fire.