Faisal Husseini, former Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem, compared the al-Aqsa intifada following the Oslo peace process to the tactic of coming out of the Trojan Horse used by the Greeks in the myth of the Trojan War.

Several months later, he was indicted in civilian court on charges of murder and attempted murder stemming from attacks carried out by the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades on Israeli soldiers.

Shortly after backing out of the amnesty deal and its promise of stopping to attack Israel that Al Aqsa agreed to a month earlier, al-Aqsa gunmen in Gaza have announced that they are starting to launch hundreds of rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and cities and named the campaign, “ Hole in the Wall II .”

* The January 13, 2005 killing of six Israeli settlers at the Karni Passage near Gaza, carried out together with Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades.

In June 2004, he kidnapped the then PA governor of Jenin, Haidar Irshard, and in Zubeidi's own words, " beat the shit out of him " for refusing to pay salaries to the al-Aqsa Brigades.

One question asked by the interviewer was: " How do you deal with the Jews who are besieging al-Aqsa and are scattered around it?

* Cistern 9 ( located just south of cistern 8, and directly under the al-Aqsa Mosque ) — known as the Well of the Leaf due to its leaf-shaped plan, also rock hewn.

PENGON was initiated after the 2000 al-Aqsa Intifada due to heightened demands for Palestinian environmental organizations to defend the Palestinian environment.

The development of educational institutions independent from the Gush Katif bloc was due to its isolated location and intensifying Palestinian attacks on traffic using the only route in during the al-Aqsa Intifada.

Omar Samir Abdul-Hamid al-Mashni, 16, of Beit Our al-Tahta, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration following Friday prayers at Jerusalem ’ s al-Aqsa mosque.

This investigation, combined with the documents found by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), led the government of Israel to draw the conclusion that the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades have always been directly funded by Yasser Arafat.

For further discussions see: al-Aqsa Intifada, IDF Caterpillar D9, Operation Defensive Shield, Battle of Jenin 2002, Operation Rainbow.

The passageway for each is vaulted, and has two aisles ( in the case of the triple gate, a third aisle exists for a brief distance beyond the gate ); the eastern aisle of the double gates and western of the triple gates reach the surface, the other aisles terminating some way before the steps – Warren believed that one aisle of each original passage was extended when the al-Aqsa Mosque blocked the original surface exits.

Another earthquake destroyed most of al-Aqsa in 1033, but two years later the Fatimid caliph Ali az-Zahir built another mosque which has stood to the present-day.

* Israeli Defence Forces kill two al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades militants in Jabalia.

The strike instead killed five civilians, including two children, two teenagers and a 29-year-old Fatah activist accused of being a member of the al-Aqsa Brigades.

Notable members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigade ( ordered lexicographically according to the last name ) includes active militants and militants that were killed or arrested by the Israeli security forces.

Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada ( 2000 ), Gush Katif settlements were the target of thousands of violent attacks by Palestinian militants.

This appointment and corruption claims against Arafat's family were partially the catalyst for intense armed conflict in the streets of Gaza between Palestinian ' militants ' of the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigade group and fighters loyal to Chairman Arafat's Fatah.

Mer-Khamis co-founded the theatre with Zakaria Zubeidi, former military chief of the al-Aqsa Brigades who had renounced violence.

" Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram ( the Sacred Mosque ) to al-Masjid al-Aqsa ( the Further Mosque ), whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs.

When the governor Kutuk refused to aid them against an-Nasir Yusuf, Baibars deposed him and had al-Mugith Umar, the emir of Karak, pronounced in the khutba at the al-Aqsa Mosque ; al-Mugith Umar had allowed the political dissidents of Cairo and Damascus, who sought protection from the Mamluk and Ayyubid authorities, a safehaven within his territories.

Although he was accredited as a Fatah delegate, one of 2, 000, to the conference in Bethlehem, Zubeidi was momentarily refused entry to the meeting hall, resulting in condemnations by al-Aqsa Brigade members in Nablus and Jenin, as well as those outside of the Palestinian territories, who described the move as " stabbing the resistance in the back.

* Denis Michael Rohan ( 1941 – 1995 ), Australian who attempted to burn down the al-Aqsa mosque in 1969

Thus it also became a natural place of stay to Moroccans who came on pilgrimage to the al-Aqsa Mosque.

Over the years a small number of schools, scientific institutions and mosques were established in the quarter and it became home to Muslim clerics who performed religious duties at the al-Aqsa Mosque.

* Al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades – The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were created in the Second Intifada to bolster the organization's militant standing vis-à-vis the rival Hamas movement, which had taken the lead in attacks on Israel after 1993, and was gaining rapidly in popularity with the advent of the Intifada.

The actual construction of the Muslim monuments at the southeast corner, facing Mecca, near which the al-Aqsa Mosque were built 78 years later.

The treaty also stipulated that the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque were to remain under Muslim control and that the city of Jerusalem would remain without fortifications.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was ambitiously rebuilt as a great Romanesque church, and Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount ( the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque ) were converted for Christian purposes.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades faction of Fatah claimed responsibility and expresses regret that Arabs were among the dead and wounded.

Due to the al-Aqsa Intifada wave of mass bombings, security measures were enforced and today many long buses in Israel are accompanied by a security guard.

During the al-Aqsa Intifada, which erupted in September 2000, the Combat Engineering Corps were employed to disarm many Palestinian IED explosive charges and booby traps.

During the al-Aqsa intifada, the leaders of the group were targeted by numerous airstrikes that killed many members, including Salah Shahade and Adnan al-Ghoul.

Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the blasts, stating they were in retaliation for recent members deaths in Jenin.

The radar station and control tower were destroyed by Israel Defense Forces aircraft in 2001 after the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada, and bulldozers cut the runway apart in January 2002.

" In July he further declared " The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, military wing of the Fatah movement will not be dissolved and Fatah will never relinquish its military wing.

Concerns have been raised about possible attacks on the al-Aqsa Mosque after a serious fire broke in the mosque in 1969 ( started by Denis Michael Rohan, an Australian fundamentalist Christian found by the court to be insane ).

As an attempt to break the stalemate, U. S. President Bill Clinton proposed dividing sovereignty of the site vertically-the ground and area below coming under Israeli sovereignty, while that above the ground ( i. e. the Haram al-Sharif containing the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque ) would be under Palestinian sovereignty.

Set up in late 2000 by former Fatah and Tanzim member Jamal Abu Samhadana, the PRC are composed primarily of ex-Fatah fighters and al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades members and are alleged by Israel to be inspired and financed by Hezbollah.

On 6 May 2002, the Israeli government released a report, based in part on documents captured during the Israeli raid of Arafat's Ramallah headquarters, which included copies of papers signed by Arafat authorizing funding for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ' activities.

After the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 637 CE, Umayyad Caliphs commissioned the construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on the site.

Likewise, Córdoba set up its own marches as a buffer to the Christian states to the north: the Upper March ( al-Tagr al-A ' la ), centered on Zaragoza and countering the eastern Marca Hispanica ; the Middle March ( al-Tagr al-Awsat ), centred on Toledo and later Medinaceli, which faced the western Pyrenees and Asturias ; and the Lower March ( al-Tagr al-Adna ) or Distant March ( al-Tagr al-Aqsa ), centred on Mérida, and created to protect Córdoba from Asturias.

On September 30, the High Follow-up Committee called on the Arab community to mount a general strike to protest the killings of five Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the Jerusalem clashes of the previous day, which many consider the first day of the al-Aqsa Intifada.

* One al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades militant, hit on Friday, dies from his wounds.

Rohan, a Christian, stated that he considered himself " the Lord's emissary " and that he tried to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque acting upon divine instructions to enable the Jews of Israel to rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount in accordance with the Book of Zechariah, thereby hasten the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada, severe restrictions on movement have been placed on all residents.