Lebanese mufti renews his call for Jihad

Lebanese mufti Sheik Mohammed Rashid Kabani focused in a message yesterday at the anniversary of prophet Mohammed's midnight journey to the seven heavens that Jerusalem is a holy city for it stands for a religious tradition for the Muslims long before the "Belfore promise" concerning establishing a national home for the Jews in the Arab Palestine.

He added "we must learn and teach our generations that liberating al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem and Palestine from the foreign occupation is a legal duty and a Jihad in God's path.

He said that it is time for the Arabs and the Muslims in the world to realize the seriousness of the occupying Israeli entity in Palestine and to get ready to combat the enemy who hides behind claims of peace.