PLO Executive Committee member, Salih Raafat, said as 52 years have passed since al-Aqsa Mosque was set on fire, the Palestinian people are still struggling for freedom and the embodiment of a Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Raafat asserted that all measures taken by the occupying power were illegal; such as Judaization, colonization and attempts to annex East Jerusalem. He elaborated that such illegal acts would not alter East Jerusalem’s legal status as the capital of the Palestinian State and that Israel must withdraw from it as well as the other Palestinian territories occupied in 1967. For further details, click here