Ahlul Bayt News Agency, GAZA -- Hamas lawmaker Hatem Kufaisheh said Friday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) issued a decision preventing 17 lawmakers, who are also noted religious figures, from giving speeches or Friday Khutbas (sermons) in West Bank mosques.
Kufaisheh underlined that this campaign against mosques and religious figures is being carried out according to a carefully-prepared plan targeting the religion of Islam and its followers in Palestine.
He affirmed that the PA prevented this Friday lawmakers Nayef Al-Rajoub and Mohamed Abu Jehaisha from delivering speeches in Al-Khalil and sent unruly elements to harass them, adding that it also closed a mosque and prevented worshipers from performing their Friday prayers inside it.
Many eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the PA's security militias also stormed on the same day other mosques in Al-Khalil city in order to prevent the Muslim figures affiliated with Hamas from giving Friday sermons." (source)
