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(IsraelNN.com) Thousands of Arab Muslim children from Israel traveled to Jerusalem Saturday for a celebration on the Temple Mount organized by the Al-Aksa Children's Fund Initiative. The children brought money that they had raised in their communities, which came to total of approximately 3 million shekels. The money was donated to the Islamic Movement.

Islamic Movement chairman Sheikh Kamel Khatib told the children that the Al-Aksa Mosque and the Temple Mount are entirely Muslim, and that the site is occupied by Israel, “just like the whole Jerusalem, which was occupied by the IDF in 1967.” Muslims have a duty to remove Israeli occupation from the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, he said.