Damascus-Sana
Syria strongly condemned the Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, reiterating its firm support for our heroic people in Jerusalem and all the occupied Palestinian territories and in the occupied Syrian Golan.
And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement today that Sanaa received a copy: The Israeli occupation authorities launched criminal attacks against the Palestinian people with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, with the aim of preventing the arrival of Palestinian worshipers to the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform religious duties there, and the occupation authority has diverted the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the town The old city in Jerusalem to a military barracks "especially in Bab al-Amoud and the surrounding area" and severed its links with the checkpoints and prevented Palestinian worshipers from the occupied West Bank from reaching the mosque. The occupation forces also supported and supported dozens of Israeli settlers from the extremist right-wing groups in their attacks on Palestinian youth in order to prevent them from Praying in the mosque.
The ministry added: This new attack comes as an expression of the occupation’s policy to change the existing legal and historical situation in the mosque and to proceed with its plan to Judaize the city of Jerusalem and end the Arab presence there in order to finish off the Palestinian cause and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people approved by the relevant United Nations resolutions, including a resolution. Security Council 194 of 1948, which affirmed the right to return, self-determination, and the establishment of its independent state on its land, and Resolution 476 of 1980, which reaffirmed that the measures taken by Israel to change the character of Jerusalem are “null and void”, recalling the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 relating to the protection of civilians in times of war and condemning the continuation of Israel is changing the physical parameters, the institutional structure, and the status of the city of Jerusalem, and resolutions 446 of 1979, 465 of 1980, 497 of 1981 and 592 of 1986, which condemn Israel for violating the human rights of the Palestinian people.
The Ministry affirmed that the Syrian Arab Republic, while strongly condemning Israeli crimes against Palestinian citizens, reaffirms its firm support for our heroic people in Jerusalem and in all the occupied territories in Palestine and in the occupied Syrian Golan.
In the conclusion of its statement, the ministry said: Syria calls on the international community, including the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities and to stop these crimes that contradict international law, move quickly and urgently to protect the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem, and take measures imposed by international law to guarantee freedom of worship for Muslims in the mosque, as the states demand Which claims to be keen on human rights by condemning these provocative practices and forcing the occupation entity to respect those principles.