Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry commenting on the Al-Aqsa Mosque events: a dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of international conventions
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement commenting on the recent events in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Palestine.
According to the statement published by the Kuwaiti Ministry through its account on the social networking site, Twitter, it expressed Kuwait’s strong condemnation and denunciation of what “the Israeli occupation forces carried out, storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking worshipers in it.”
— وزارة الخارجية (@MOFAKuwait) April 15, 2022
The statement explained that these attacks, which claimed hundreds of innocent lives, “are a dangerous escalation, a flagrant violation of international charters and resolutions, and a reason to fuel extremism and violence and undermine the stability of the region.”
The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry called on the international community and the Security Council to “assume their responsibilities in protecting the brotherly Palestinian people, and curbing the attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces.”
Yesterday, Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that at least 90 people were injured, as the Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, after thousands of people performed the dawn prayer in the chapels and courtyards of the mosque.
The Palestinian News Agency stated that large forces of the Israeli army and police stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque after dawn prayers, and fired a barrage of tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at the worshipers.
The agency confirmed the injury of more than 90 worshipers, including two in critical condition, and the number of injured is steadily increasing, at a time when the Israeli authorities are preventing their transfer to the hospital.
The Israeli forces pursued and beat the worshipers, evacuating most of them from the courtyards of Al-Aqsa, and closed all the gates leading to it, except for Bab Hatta, while a number of worshipers remained trapped in the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The same forces fired stun grenades and tear gas inside Al-Qibli Mosque, causing material damage to it and breaking some of its windows.
For his part, Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Omer Bar-Lev, said that his country’s government will do everything possible to allow freedom of worship in Al-Aqsa Mosque, claiming that the Israeli police are working under difficult conditions and forced to confront “violent elements.”
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