Press TV – May 8, 2021
Israeli police at the al Aqsa Mosque
Several Muslim countries have denounced a violent Israeli assault on Palestinian worshipers in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds.
More than 200 Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of Palestinians attending night prayers at the compound.
The clashes took place on the International Quds Day, the last Friday of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance service said 88 of those wounded were taken to hospital, adding, one of them lost an eye, two suffered serious head wounds and two had their jaws fractured.
Dozens of worshipers were also arrested by the occupation forces, according to Wafa news agency.
In a televised statement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held the Tel Aviv regime fully responsible for the “dangerous developments and sinful attacks that are taking place in the Holy City, and for the consequences thereof,” urging the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent session on the issue.
Tensions have increased in the occupied West Bank during Ramadan, with nightly clashes in East Jerusalem al-Quds’ Sheikh Jarrah, which sits near the Old City’s Damascus gate.
Numerous families face eviction in the Palestinian neighborhood due to illegal settlement expansion policies of the occupying regime.
On Friday, scuffles broke out near Sheikh Jarrah as Israeli forces used water cannon mounted on armored vehicles to disperse protesters.
Iran ‘strongly condemns’ Israeli raid
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the Islamic Republic “strongly condemns” the Israeli raid on the al-Aqsa Mosque, the first Qiblah of Muslims (a place toward which Muslims pray), on the Quds Day.
“This war crime once again proved to the world the criminal nature of the illegitimate Zionist regime and the need for urgent international action to stop the violation of the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law,” he added.
“In addition to condemning this definite crime against humanity and offering condolences to the families of the martyrs of this incident and wishing a speedy recovery for the wounded, the Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the UN and other relevant international organizations to fulfill their decisive duty against the war crime.”
Khatibzadeh also noted that Iran “proudly stands by the heroic people of Palestine and calls on all world countries, especially Muslim states, to honor their historic task and stand by the Palestinian nation in the face of the Zionist aggressors.”
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it “strongly condemns” Friday’s attack by Israeli forces on Palestinian worshipers at al-Aqsa Mosque.
“We call on the Israeli government to put an end to this provocative and aggressive attitude as soon as possible by targeting the freedom of worship of the Palestinian people and the status of the al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan, and invite them to sanity,” the statement read.
“Turkey will continue to support the just cause of the Palestinian people.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu took to Twitter to say, “It is inhumane for Israel to target innocents praying during Holy Ramadan.”
Turkey’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin also tweeted, “Israeli occupation forces, which don’t respect any religious values during the holy month of Ramadan, must leave al-Aqsa mosque immediately.”
Qatar said the Israeli raid “was a provocation to the feelings of millions of Muslims around the world, and a severe violation of human rights and international accords.”
The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed in a statement that the international community must “move swiftly to end the repeated Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and Al Aqsa mosque.”
It further emphasized Doha’s “firm position of the fairness of the Palestinian cause and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including their religious rights and right to establish an independent state based on the borders of 1967 with al-Quds as its capital.”
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry blasted the mosque attack, calling it a blatant affront to the feelings of Muslims and rules of human rights.
It also held Israeli authorities responsible for a dangerous escalation and consequences that may result.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry similarly denounced Israeli forces for breaking into the al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking worshipers.
Egypt’s al-Azhar University, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning, condemned the “brutal Zionist terrorism in the light of shameful international silence” toward what is going on in Jerusalem al-Quds.
The Islamic Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS), instead, hailed the steadfastness of Palestinians in al-Quds in the face of Israeli aggression and plans to displace them from their homes.
IUMS Secretary-General Ali Qaradaghi encouraged the Muslim world to support the Palestinian cause materially and morally, calling it a religious duty and necessity.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry refused to condemn the attack, only saying Israel’s unilateral measures undermine chances to resume “peace” talks.
“We reject Israel’s plans and measures to evict Palestinians from their homes in al-Quds and to impose Israel’s sovereignty on them,” it said.
Crickets from the Jewnited States of America. This definitely won’t be mentioned on CNN or even Faux News. When it comes to Israel, the American government and media sees, hears and speaks no evil. But if Iran did something like this, the JEWSA world be wanting to go to war. This is why I am an American who hates America.
@ Thomas Pickering
As much as many of us these days tend to be “anti-American” regarding all of the abuses of power your nation has committed on the world stage, it is still a nation where there is are enough really good people who could indeed make it for the first time a “great” nation, but this can only come about by throwing off the shackles and controls of the international banking cartel, the MIC, and the Masons. This will only come off if more people can disconnect from the mainstream media and all of the disinformation and controls of your intelligence organizations also now polluting the alternate media.
Of all nations in the world, more money is spent per capita in the US than anywhere else on the various public and private agencies brainwashing and controlling the people through the media. All of your presidents and major political leaders are selected. Your major political parties are controlled by the same international baking cabal. The people are constantly and easily manipulated and distracted into a multiplicity of issues, to keep everyone constantly divided, and then when an election comes around they are herded into either the blue pen or the red pen to fight it out in a totally money and media dominated arena called an “election”.
When the people who own the arena blatantly expose that even the Presidential election is fixed, what do the losers do? They run off to their rigged and fixed courts expecting justice. When they protest in the capital, it is a highly-controlled affair, made up of good, conservative, law-abiding citizens, who spend the rest of the year apologizing or blaming Antifa for causing some miniscule property damage to the precincts of the thoroughly corrupt US Congress.
The only choice the people think they have is a Trump who is nothing but a pawn of the banking cartel, and a man known for his extensive dependence and connections to the corrupt US gambling establishment. Last year the elephant in the room in every American household was the Covid scamdemic and it was not even an election issue. The biggest fraud in human history, being used to usher in the totalitarian UN Agenda 21. No exposure. No debate. Nothing.
The fault of all of this manipulation and tranny is not with the ordinary American people who want truth, freedom and just to rule their lives, their nation, and the world, but with all of those who run the place, playing God, and totally addicted to money and power.
Since when did the Zionists care about human rights and international law.
And what will the UN do about it , SFA as usual.
Remember the golden rule . Whoever has the gold makes the rules and we all know who has the gold. The same unmentionables who brought us WW1 , WW2 and the Gulf wars and very soon to bring mankind WW3.
I do not like the Islam, but their are limits in our ethic thinking, this is bad very very bad, and the consequentes will be coming, and nobody will help the Zionist Jews nobody !
If the Axis won WWII, Israel wouldn’t exist & you would have world peace now. But millions of white gentile Christians-Communists from Britain-USA-Auz-Nz-Canada-S.Africa-USSR etc obliterated the Third Reich so they could continue serving their global Jewish Overlords.
Moslems are destroying the churches in France, but there is no French government, only one which says “the African Moslems are us”. Somehow the French were White Christians but now they are Black Moslems, in the Rothschild gaslighting. Meanwhile, it doe not matter, because God is not confined to the little brick box you built. Does he leave it at night to govern a billion galaxies? In the little brick box you only find an hypocritical bossy anthropoid.
Bibi Netanyahu is in serious political and legal trouble. He is the antichrist, he will do anything to stay in power, and my bets are on him ramping up the crisis into WW3.
Netanyahu was unable to form a government for the 3rd time. His rivals are now given that task, he is facing corruption charges and jail.
The purpose of the police attack is to get the Arabs to react, to start a war, so he stays in power.
The Iranians and Arabs have not reacted to that extent, thus Bibi is finished unless, of course, he gets a IDF jet to drop a nuke on Tehran or some other big provactive event.
So expect another nuclear false flag soon.
Bibi will blow up the entire world before he resigns.
This is the Jews trying to provoke a response from Iran. They want to start WW3.
#NOMOREWARSFORISRAEL
covid put the world locked and arrested. we all are Palestine in Gaza now. zionists can do what otherwise can’t do. every nation is under the threat of a bioweapon that we will bend down humanity to the will of zionists. we have seen the ME government signed up for slavery like the government of western nations.
Russia and Iran are the last refusing the Zionist’s supremacy. c’mon russia, slavery can’t be an option death is more desirable.
it makes no diference if white race is exterminated now by jew
pharma masonry or later by islamic throat cutters !