Jerusalem: The Arab League called on the international community Friday to assume its responsibilities regarding the city of Jerusalem and provide international protection for the Palestinian people, their land, and their holy sites. It also called on the international community to force the Israeli occupation to halt its war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people and their holy sites, and to compel Israel (the occupying power) to stop these crimes.
According to Qatar News Agency, in a statement marking the 56th anniversary of the arson attack on Al Aqsa Mosque, the League noted that the painful anniversary of the arson attack on Al Aqsa Mosque by extremist terrorist settler Michael Denisrohan on August 21, 1969, comes as settler gangs continue their ongoing and condemned aggression and incursions into the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, violating its sanctity.
These attacks are led by government ministers and protected by the occupation army and police, who aim to impose its temporal and spatial division and continue the ethnic cleansing of the people of Jerusalem to erase the Arab and Islamic identity of the Holy City, in flagrant violation of international legitimacy resolutions.
The Arab League noted that this painful anniversary coincides with the comprehensive war of genocide against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, which is subjected to the crime of comprehensive destruction of all aspects of life.
Meanwhile, the crime of settlement expansion, annexation, and land confiscation continues in the occupied West Bank, most recently the colonial Judaization Plan E1, which aims to separate Jerusalem from its surroundings and fragment the West Bank, undermining the possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state.
It also reaffirmed the special status of the Holy City of Jerusalem and the integrity and sanctity of its holy sites, holding the occupying authorities fully responsible for the safety of all holy sites under their brutal occupation.
The Arab League hailed the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their adherence to their Arab and Palestinian identity, their resistance to all Judaization projects in Jerusalem, and their confrontation of the occupation's colonial projects aimed at obliterating its identity and emptying it of its population.
The League affirmed the absolute and continued support of the Arab states for the steadfast Palestinian people on their path to freedom and independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the June 4, 1967, lines.