The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary meeting in Jeddah next Monday in response to a request from the Republic of Indonesia to discuss the escalating Israeli violations in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The OIC Union of News Agencies (UNA) said on Thursday: “The meeting comes in light of the escalation of daily Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque by closing its gates storming it by groups of settlers and daily attacking worshipers inside it which resulted in hundreds of injuries and arrests.”
The UNA added that “the Secretary-General of the organization Hussein Ibrahim Taha held contacts and consultations with several international actors during which he expressed the organization’s rejection and condemnation of the Israeli occupation’s attempts to impose temporal and spatial division in the blessed mosque.”
It added that Taha “demanded these parties and the international community take urgent action to put an end to the Israeli violations against the holy places” stressing the need to preserve the historical and legal status of Al-Aqsa Mosque as it is a place of worship exclusively for Muslims.
Hundreds of settlers have stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque daily since last Sunday coinciding with the Jewish “Passover” which this year intersected with the third week of the blessed month of Ramadan from 16 to 22 April.
