Kuwait has expressed its full rejection of recent calls for Israel’s participation in supervising and controlling the Aqsa Mosque according to Kuwait News Agency.
This came in a speech by ambassador Jamal al-Ghunaim Kuwait’s permanent representative to the UN and other international organizations during the UN Human Rights Council’s discussion of a report on the situation of human rights in the occupied on Monday.
Sharing the supervision of the Aqsa Mosque could trigger off religious tensions especially with the continued intentional and unprecedented Israeli provocations and break-ins at the Mosque Ghunaim warned.
He expressed his country’s shock and dismay at the international silence over Israel’s policies that provide political and economic incentives encouraging its residents to settle illegally in the occupied territories.
The Kuwait ambassador stressed that Israel’s persistence in Judaizing Jerusalem changing its religious and historic landmarks and carrying out diggings beneath the Aqsa Mosque is a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
He also expressed Kuwait’s condemnation of the ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people and the violations of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the Israeli army.
He urged the international community to pressure Israel to honor its obligations under international law and immediately stop its violations against the Palestinian people.
He also called for international action to ensure the release of thousands of Palestinians lifting of the unjust siege on Gaza and reopening of the crossings and to work on ending Israel’s military checkpoints inside the Palestinian territories.
