KANGAR – The Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (MAIPs) has instructed all mosques statewide to recite Qunut Nazilah (a supplication for Allah’s protection from harm) during the Subuh (dawn) prayers today.
Raja Muda of Perlis Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail, in a statement issued by MAIPs, said the order was issued after examining developments in the wake of the incursion and attacks by the Israeli occupation forces and Israeli settlers against the Palestinian civilians and worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque on May 7.
He said that all mosques in Perlis have been ordered to recite Qunut Nazilah during the five daily obligatory prayers today and tomorrow (May 11-12) starting from the dawn prayers today.
Tuanku Syed Faizuddin, who is also the president of MAIPs, said that the Israeli incursion and attacks at the third holiest mosque in Islam were cruel and inhumane.
“I call on all the people of Perlis to also pray for the well-being and safety of our brothers and sisters in Palestine,” he said.
Nine Palestinians, including three children meanwhile, were killed and many were injured yesterday evening in an explosion in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip said in a statement that the bodies of the nine people had been delivered to the main hospital in the town.
The reason for the explosion wasn’t immediately known, and the Hamas statement did not explicitly blame Israeli airstrikes for the deaths.
The explosion in northern Gaza coincided with a series of rockets fired by Gazan militants toward the Jerusalem area and southern Israel.
The Israeli military said at least six of the 45 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip were launched toward Jerusalem’s outskirts, where a house was hit.
At nightfall, the Israeli military carried out an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip in response to the rockets attack.
Hamas militants claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, saying its military wing al-Qassam Brigades “struck occupied Jerusalem with a barrage of rockets.”
“Firing the rockets was a response to the occupier’s crimes and aggression against the holy city and harassing our people at Al-Aqsa Mosque and the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah,” said a masked spokesman.
The tension between Israelis and Palestinians has been flaring up over the past few days amid the escalating violence in East Jerusalem between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli forces.
