Türkiye on Wednesday authorised Israel‘s resolution to halt entries, apart from by Muslims, into Al-Aqsa Mosque advanced in occupied East Jerusalem till the top of Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan to alleviate pressure.
In a cellphone name, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen mentioned the most recent developments concerning the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Turkish diplomatic sources mentioned.
The cellphone name got here a day after an announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s workplace on prohibition of Jewish guests and vacationers “from going up to the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque complex) until the end of Ramadan.”
Çavuşoğlu emphasised that provocations shouldn’t be repeated within the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The minister additionally mentioned Türkiye will make each attainable contribution to scale back the stress, in line with the sources.
The pressure escalated throughout the Palestinian territories after Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque advanced in East Jerusalem and forcibly eliminated worshipers final week.
The Israeli raids on the mosque triggered rocket hearth from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, with Israel retaliating with air and artillery shelling.
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world’s third-holiest website. Jews, for his or her half, name the world the Temple Mount, saying it was the location of two historical Jewish temples.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the place Al-Aqsa is positioned, throughout the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed all the metropolis in 1980 in a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide neighborhood.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
