The Arab League will hold today an emergency meeting at the level of foreign ministers to discuss the latest Israeli attacks on Jerusalem and the Al Aqsa Mosque.
The meeting, which was scheduled to be held on Wednesday and postponed to today to give an opportunity to increase the participation of Arab foreign ministers, came at the request of Jordan and supported by a number of member states of the university.
The spokesman of the Secretary-General Minister Plenipotentiary, Mahmoud Afifi said that it was agreed after contacting different participants to hold the meeting today instead of Wednesday, in order to ensure the participation of the largest number of ministers, Stressing that coordination was also made with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and it was agreed to hold its ministerial meeting on this subject next week.
He said the emergency meeting of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers will discuss the situation in the City of Jerusalem and in the vicinity of the Al Aqsa Mosque. The meeting is scheduled to discuss the escalation of Israeli violations against the defenseless Palestinian people and Islamic holy sites in recent days, in addition to the ongoing attempts to Judaize Jerusalem, impose a temporal and spatial division of Al Aqsa Mosque and take control over it. The meeting will also highlight the role of the nation’s scholars in addressing these violations against the is the first of the two Qiblahs, the second of the two holy mosques and the third of the Harams, the statement said.
The statement added that the Israeli occupation authorities declared the holy site a military area and prevented worshipers from entering it, which should be considered as an outright violation of international norms and laws.
These arbitrary measures are a provocation to Muslim feelings and a clear violation of the freedom to practice religious rites, it added.
For the first time since 1969, the Israeli occupation authorities have taken “unprecedented” escalation steps against Al-Aqsa Mosque by deciding its complete closure and preventing prayers in response to the “Al Aqsa operation,” which resulted in the death of three Palestinians and two Israeli policemen in an armed clash near the Aqsa Mosque. As part of popular reactions to the Israeli violations, civil and popular gatherings in a number of Arab and international cities organized solidarity rallies to support Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian people against Israeli violations.
The participants expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian people and their support for the Al Aqsa Mosque.
For their art, International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has expressed in a statement called on the Islamic nation to take effective measures against the Israeli occupation under the slogan “Save al-Aqsa.”
Commenting on the Israeli measures, the statement considered the closure of al-Aqsa Mosque as a crime, strongly condemning the passive position of the Islamic nation towards the serious events.
For its part, the National Union of Kuwaiti Students organized a rally under the slogan “Rage Over Al Aqsa” at Kuwait University Campus to support Palestinians and condemn the ongoing Israeli violations at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
