OIC to Address Israeli Violations at Al-Aqsa in Extraordinary Meeting
The meeting will be held at its headquarters in Jeddah.
The meeting come a week after far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque, infuriating Palestinians and the Muslim world over the breach of the holy site’s status quo that allows only Muslim worship at the compound.
Tuesday's visit by the Israeli minister has sparked a wave of international condemnation, including from the United States, a longstanding ally of the occupying regime, as well as Palestinian authorities and the Muslim world.
The al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which sits just above the Western Wall plaza, houses both the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli regime enables the Jewish visitation of al-Aqsa despite the fact that an agreement signed between Israel and the Jordanian government in the wake of Israel’s occupation of East al-Quds in 1967 prohibits non-Muslim worship at the compound.
Back in October 2021, an Israeli court upheld a ban on Jewish prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, after an earlier lower court’s decision stirred outrage among Palestinians and across the Muslim world.
Judge of the district court in al-Quds Aryeh Romanov on October 8 confirmed that Jews are barred from worshiping openly at the site and only Muslims are permitted to pray there.
In May 2021, frequent acts of violence against Palestinian worshipers at al-Aqsa led to an 11-day war between Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli regime, during which the regime killed at least 260 Palestinians, including 66 children.
Palestinians want the occupied West Bank as part of their future independent state and view al-Quds’ eastern sector as the capital of their future sovereign state.
Source: agencies
