Broadcast 11 January on Iranian state satellite TV (IRINN)

Shops lean against the city's high walls. It seems that stability always thrives on the bazaar. Since the time Jerusalem has held the sacred sites of Islam and Christianity, the markets have been major influnces in the city's construction. They seem to have been born with the city.

Jerusalem's important markets, which have become world famous, have provided beautiful souvenirs for pilgrims and tourists to buy and take to various places as gifts and travel mementos. These have been indications of the skilled and industrious hands of the Palestinians.

The industrialists have inherited the shops and stands from their fathers and grandfathers and along with that they have come to love Jerusalem and its elegant and beautiful industries.

The markets were ajoined to the walls of the mosque and by way of the cloth merchants one gained direct access to the sacred mosque's pedestrian walkways.

Jerusalem's three famous markets are the Cloth Market, the Dabaghi Market and the market for the Christian areas. The three markets are connected and extend to the end of the old part of the city.

The original windows extend to Bab al-Farid and Bab al-Umur in such a way that the markets are considered a single market with 10 shops in each market.

Like everything else in Jerusalem, the markets have not been safe from savage attacks by the Zionists. In 1968 Zionist bulldozers destroyed two famous markets and the rest of the markets remained under threat.

After the destruction of the two famous markets it was time to destroy the gift market. The Zionists made every effort to keep tourists and pilgram away from the Arab markets. The usurper regime began many plots against the merchants in the Arab markets.

The merchants of Jerusalem believe the reason the shops and markets were closed was inability to pay the heavy taxes. The merchants and the people of Jerusalem have understood that the attack on the markets is not just for economic reasons. It is also intended to threaten the authentic signs of Arab culture and Islam.

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