Sarsour mengatakan pemerintah Israel membayar seorang pedagang Palestina 60.000 dolar AS agar menjual tokonya di perbatasan dengan Al-Haram Asy-Syarif (Bukit Knisah), tempat Masjid Al-Aqsha berada, demikian laporan yang disiarkan oleh harian Israel, Haaretz.
Sarsour said that the Israeli government paid a Palestinian vendor $60,000 for his store bordering with the Temple Mount compound on which the mosque is located, according to a report carried by the Israeli online daily newspaper Haaretz.