The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned in the strongest terms the dangerous escalation by the Israeli occupation forces and terrorist settlers after they repeatedly stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Qudsi Ash-Sharif during the blessed month of Ramadan, reports IRNA.
A final Communique adopted by the OIC at an extraordinary open-ended meeting of the organization’s Executive Committee held on Saturday condemned continuous Israeli attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The statement was adopted at the request of the State of Palestine and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and in coordination and consultation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the current Chair of the Summit and Executive Committee, at the headquarters of the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In the statement, OIC reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestinian Cause, with Al-Quds Ash-Sharif and its sanctities at its heart, for the entire Islamic Ummah, and the eternal attachment of Muslims all over the world to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two Qiblas and the third of the Holy Mosques, as well as affirming the Arab and Islamic identity of occupied East Al-Quds, the capital of the State of Palestine and dismissing any prejudice to that in any way:
It also warns of the consequences of the continued infringement by the Israeli occupation authorities, their officials, and terrorist settlers on the sanctity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Qudsi Ash-Sharif, including continuous provocations, abuses, daily severe assaults, and incursions in gross violation of international law and unprecedented tampering with the existing historical and legal situation to perpetuate the temporal and spatial division of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and stresses that the Israeli occupation has no sovereignty over any part of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Qudsi Ash-Sharif and that Muslim worshipers have the absolute right to pray freely and safely in and around it, at any time, without any hindrance or violence inflicted on them.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
