The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) issued a warning towards potential Israeli assaults on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem following a far-right safety minister’s provocative go to to the holy website.
In an announcement following a unprecedented assembly on Tuesday, the Jeddah-based group referred to as for imposing sanctions on far-right Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir for violating the sanctity of the flashpoint website.
Last week, Ben-Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa advanced, triggering a storm of condemnations from nations internationally, together with Jordan, Türkiye, the U.S. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan.
The OIC thought of Ben-Gvir’s go to a “serious provocation that hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world and a blatant violation of international law, relevant U.N. resolutions, existing historic and legal situation in al-Quds (Jerusalem) and its sanctities and all relevant international norms.”
The pan-Muslim grouping strongly condemned Israeli settlers’ “repeated attacks,” on Christian holy locations and properties, “including the recent attack on the endowments of the Orthodox Church at Bab-Al-Khaleel and Silwan and the desecration and destruction of Christian graves on Mount Zion in the eastern part of al-Quds.”
The OIC urged the United Nations Security Council “to assume its responsibilities” and to cease the damaging Israeli escalation in occupied East Jerusalem.
The assertion affirmed the Palestinian sovereignty over “al-Quds Al-Sharif (East Jerusalem) and all its holy places, its ancient town and its walls,” saying that every one measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities to alter the character and authorized standing of the town or its demographic composition are “null and void and have no legal effect.”
Palestinians accuse Israel of systematically working to Judaize East Jerusalem, the place Al-Aqsa is situated, and to obliterate its Arab and Islamic id.
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world’s third-holiest website. On the opposite hand, Jews name the world the Temple Mount, saying it was the location of two Jewish temples in historical instances.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem through the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the whole metropolis in 1980, in a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide group.
