Al-Suhaibani stressed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the president of the Islamic Summit and the Executive Committee, hopes that this meeting will come out with a unified Islamic position within the OIC framework and in coordination and integration with active regional and international organizations to stop the Israeli aggression and violations against Islamic sanctities.
For his part, the OIC Secretary-General, Hissein Ibrahim Taha, affirmed that the Israeli attacks against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque are an offense against the feelings and beliefs of Muslims around the world, as well as a flagrant violation of international law and UN resolutions. In his speech at the meeting, the Secretary-General confirmed that these attacks would fuel violence and tension and destabilize security and stability in the region.
The Secretary-General called for responsible international action that compels Israel to stop these serious violations in order to preserve the existing historical and legal status of Al-Aqsa Mosque as a place of worship for Muslims alone.
Hissein Taha stressed that the Israeli occupation is taking measures aimed at changing the geographical and demographic situation in the occupied Al-Quds, obliterating its Arab-Muslim identity, and attacking its Islamic sanctities, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, by closing its gates, attacking worshipers and preventing them from reaching it, and storming it by extremist settlers and senior Israeli officials under the protection of the occupation forces, particularly the provocative visit of the extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Hissein Taha explained that he contacted international actors to convey the OIC’s position in this regard, including the United Nations and the European Union in order to urge them to exert pressure on Israel to stop its serious violations against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The OIC Secretary-General called for mobilizing and redoubling the OIC’s political, economic, and media efforts in order to protect the occupied Al-Quds, support the steadfastness of its people in the face of Israeli Judaization schemes and defend the inalienable Palestinian rights.
In turn, the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the OIC, Ambassador Maher Al-Karaki, expressed his thanks to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its continuous support of the OIC and its sincere efforts to defend the issues of the Islamic nation, foremost of which is the Palestinian cause and Al-Quds Al-Sharif.
He stressed that the continuous Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque this time bore an official trend, as they were carried out by an extremist Israeli minister known for his hostile and racist record against the Palestinian people.
“Since the occupation of Al-Qods in 1967, the government of the occupying power has not stopped its attempts to prejudice the historical and legal reality existing in the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Christian and Islamic sanctities in the heart of which is the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Al-Karaki said.
He stressed that the escalating Israeli incursions aimed at changing the status quo in Al-Aqsa, dividing it temporally and spatially, and imposing colonial sovereignty over it in flagrant violation of international law and the resolutions of international legitimacy.
Al-Karaki pointed out that Israel is also trying to change the historical and legal situation, not only in Al-Aqsa but in the entire city of East Jerusalem and its old town through a systematic policy imposed by the current, most extreme Israeli government, to Judaize the city, desecrate its sanctities, and obliterate its identity and demographic, historical and cultural character.
Source: Jordan News Agency