JEDDAH, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an exceptional open-ended meeting of the Executive Committee at the level of permanent representative at the headquarters of the General Secretariat on 25 April 2022, to discuss the escalating Israeli violations against al-Aqsa Mosque, at the request of the Republic of Indonesia.

This meeting comes in light of the escalation of daily Israeli attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque by closing its gates, invading it by groups of extremist settlers and the Israeli occupation forces, and attacking daily worshipers inside it, which led to the wounding and arrest of hundreds of them, said the statement.

The Secretary-General, Hissein Brahim Taha, has held consultations with several international actors, during which he expressed the organization’s rejection and condemnation of the Israeli occupation’s attempts to impose the temporal and spatial division of the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque, calling on these parties and the international community to take urgent action to put an end to the Israeli violations against the holy sites, stressing the need to preserve the historical and legal status quo in al-Aqsa Mosque as it is a place of worship for only the Muslims alone.

Source: Palestine News & Info Agency