OIC Condemns and Warns of Gravity of Israel’s Continued Violations of Islamic and Christian holy Sites in Occupied Al-Quds

​​The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, condemned in the strongest terms the incursion of the extremist Israeli minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Haram Al-Sharif, accompanied by groups of extremist settlers and under the protection of the Israeli occupation police, considering it a blatant assault on the sanctity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and a deliberate and dangerous provocation to the feelings of Muslims around the world.

​The Secretary-General emphasized that Israel, the occupying power, does not have any sovereignty over the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including the city of East Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, and that any measures and actions taken by the occupying power in this regard are null and void, warning of the gravity of the continued Israeli violations, which come within the framework of its plans to impose new facts on the ground through attempts to change the geographical and demographic situation in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem), compromise the existing historical and legal status of the holy sites in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and attempts to divide the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially, in violation of the right to worship at the holy sites in the city.

​The OIC Secretary-General held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for all the dangerous repercussions of the continuation of these provocative incursions, which would fuel violence, tension and instability in the region and the entire world, reiterating his call on all parties of the international community to assume their responsibilities and take deterrent diplomatic, legal and economic measures to pressure the Israeli occupation to respect its obligations under international law and stop these repeated violations, and to ensure respect for the sanctity of Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and the need to preserve the historical and legal status of the holy sites in Al-Quds (Jerusalem).