text: I should be grateful if you would arrange for this letter and its annex to be circulated as an official doc­ ument of the General Assembly and of the Security Co,tncil. (Si,:11ec/) Abdullah SALAH Perll/(///('l/t Rc•prl'Sl'l/f{(th·e ,~r Jore/an to the U11itecl Natio11s ··('in.:11latcd under the douhlc ~ymhol /\/JX/117-S/l.'iM:!. (i{) ANNEX [Original: Arabic] [/6 March /983] Israeli assaults on the sacred Al-Haram Al-Sharif from June 1967 to March 1983 The Israeli conspiracy against the sacred Al-Haram Al-Sharif sanctuary of the AI-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. aimed at the destruction of the complex and the establishment of the Temple on its ruins. began during the latter part of 1967. less than one week after the occupation of the city. This con~piracy has adopted numerous methods. all aimed at the destruction of this sacred Islamic monument. the first of the two Qiblas and the tf,ird of the Holy Places. and at terminating the historic Islamic relationship with the City of Jerusalem. which finds visual expression primarily in its fundamental symbol. the blessed AI-Aqsa Mosque. These methods have alternated between. on the one hand. early excavation work around the AI-Aqsa Mosque from the west and the south. which. as a result of the extension of the excavations through a tunnel. penetrated underneath the Mosque. and. on the other. innumerable attempts at infiltration. which occurred. on the aver­ age. two or three times in one month. on the pretext of holding prayers in the Mosque. while the real go::I is to impose the Jewish ./cti1 t1fft1111pli on the AI-Haram Al-Sharif. That is what happened in the lbrahimi Mosque at Hebron. where the act of entry into and prayer in the Mosque led to its partition between Muslims and Jews. the subsequent encirclement of the Muslim areas and harassment of 
analysis: The text appears to be a diplomatic document, specifically a report or statement from the representative of a country to the United Nations, addressing a sensitive political issue related to the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem and the Al-Haram Al-Sharif complex. The language used is formal and diplomatic, and the content is focused on the historical and current situation, rather than on economic or development aspects.