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What is the ruling on visiting the occupied territories within the interior, organized annually by the ministry for employees, which requires Israeli permits to access tourist sites such as the sea and Al-Aqsa Mosque?

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Scholars have differed on the issue of obtaining permits from the Jewish occupier. The more preponderant opinion is that there is no sin upon the people of Palestine in obtaining permits to enter the occupied territories if they are compelled to do so for a legitimate purpose, and this is not considered an acknowledgment of the occupier's legitimacy.

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