Executive Committee of Organization of Islamic Cooperation Issues Concluding Statement on Israeli Aggression Against Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Executive Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation concluded its extraordinary open-ended meeting convened today to discuss the ongoing Israeli attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque at the request of the State of Palestine and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, current president of the Islamic Summit and chairman of the executive committee, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah. The Committee is based on the principles and objectives of the Charter of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and confirms all resolutions issued by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation concerning the question of Palestine and al-Quds al-Sharif and the centrality of the Palestine question. , including Al-Quds al-Sharif and their sanctity, to the entire Islamic Ummah, and the eternal bond of Muslims throughout the world in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two Qiblahs and the third of the Two Holy Mosques.

The committee affirms the Arab and Islamic identity of occupied East Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, and refuses to undermine it in any way. The isolation of worshipers and its courtyards as they performed their prayers and rituals, including women and children, led to the injury and arrest of hundreds of them, and the damage to the al-Qibli prayer hall, which was based on the current legal and historical situation. represents an attack. and serious violations of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions.

The Committee warns of the consequences of continued violations by the Israeli occupation authorities, their officials and terrorist settlers on the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, including provocations, sustained abuses, assaults and daily severe raids, in grave violation of international law. An unprecedented tampering with the existing historical and legal status, and in an attempt to maintain the temporal and spatial division of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Affirms that the Al-Aqsa Mosque has no sovereignty over any part of the Israeli occupation of Al-Aqsa, and that Muslim believers may pray safely in and around it, at any time, without hindrance or violence has full rights.

The Committee holds Israel accountable for the consequences of these dangerous provocations by the apartheid government as it continues its efforts with systematic brutal attacks, deliberate and repeated provocations, inflaming the situation and provoking a religious confrontation with unpredictable consequences . , and warns of its consequences on momentum and international security and calls upon the international community, especially the United Nations Security Council, being responsible for maintaining momentum and security forces, to assume its responsibilities and act urgently Says Take the necessary measures to prevent and stop the dangerous Israeli escalation and with it all other illegal and provocative measures and policies affecting the sanctity of the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, without selective or double-crossing standards.

The Executive Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation commends the stance of countries that have expressed their disapproval and condemnation of Israel’s provocative and aggressive incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and calls for concrete measures, including sanctions. Israel calls for an end to colonial rule, these practices and all of its illegal procedures and policies, and for the accountability of signatory states to the Geneva Conventions stipulating that Israel must be held accountable for all violations of international humanitarian law needed, whether by its government officials, military forces or extremist colonialists.

The organization pays tribute to the Palestinian people, to those who stood firm in the city of Jerusalem, stating that it stands with them and supports their heroism in every way possible, and to the Palestinian people at Al-Quds Al on the sovereignty of Sharif and all its holy places and the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls, and that all measures taken or to be taken by the occupying authorities are Israeli colonial measures aimed at changing the character and legal character of the city or its demographic composition The situation has to change. are null and void of legal effect.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation affirms Jordan’s management of Islamic and Christian holy sites in the historic Hashemite city of Jerusalem, and its role in protecting these holy sites and preserving the existing legal and historical status within them, and stating that That the Endowment of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department of the Jordanian Endowment, Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Holy Places is the authorized body for the management of the affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Al-Quds confirms the important role of the Jerusalem Committee, chaired by HM King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco, in addressing the dangerous policies implemented by the Israeli occupation authorities in Al-Sharif to change the city’s identity and legal status. Appreciating the role played by the Bait Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, its demographic, cultural and historical composition.

The Committee calls upon Member States of the Organization and the General Secretariat of the Organization to take immediate action to address these serious attacks and to activate the mechanisms set out in the relevant resolutions to proceed at all levels and to send urgent messages to relevant international bodies, including the Security Council calls upon. Reflecting the Organization’s position in this regard, and stressing the call for international protection for the Palestinian people and the occupied city of al-Quds al-Sharif and its holy sites, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, illegal An attempt to radically change the current legal and historical situation.

It also underscores the importance of continued coordination and cooperation between the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the League of Arab States and the African Union to protect the occupied city of Jerusalem from systematic Israeli policies and attacks and calls for a group of ambassadors . The Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to transfer and transmit the contents of this statement to the capitals of influential countries around the world, and to the relevant international organizations to transfer and initiate the necessary consultations and measures. Addressing and stopping the systematic Israeli attacks in the Occupied City of Jerusalem, reaffirming its continued follow-up to all developments relating to the Holy City of Jerusalem, in particular to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and adopting appropriate measures in this regard For and as established in the decisions of the Islamic Councils and Ministers of Foreign Affairs.