The Muslim Congress (TMC) yesterday called on world leaders to reined in on Israeli government to stop attacking the Palestinians worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque (Masjid Al-Aqsa) especially during the Ramadan.
Its Amir, Alhaji AbdulWasiu Bangbala, said the international community must hold Israel responsible for the recent spate of unprovoked attacks and for its criminal occupation and policy of apartheid against Palestinians.
According to him, there must be conscientious international efforts to finding lasting solution to the lingering conflict based on the existence of Palestine and Israel, within the framework of the United Nations.
Bangbala said: “Masjid Al-Aqsa is the holiest site for Muslims in Jerusalem and a symbol of the Prophetic memory linking the three venerated sites of Makkah, Medina and Jerusalem. The historic mosque is emblematic of the wholeness of Islam. The centrality and importance of Masjid Al-Aqsa to the Muslim Ummah is indisputable, hence, every Israeli attack on The Mosque cannot be reduced to incursion against the Palestinians alone but an affront to Muslims across the globe.
“No fewer than 158 Palestinian worshippers were reportedly injured, as heart rending videos surfaced on social media showing the unsparing Israeli forces attack infirmed elderly, women and children with rubber bullets, batons and tear gas, at Masjid Al-Aqsa since April 15. These recent raids and assaults on the third holiest place in Islam evinces dangerous escalation of Israeli aggression against Palestinians resident in Al-Quds and in other occupied part of Palestine. Israel’s constant desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque is certainly a deliberate provocation of the Muslim Ummah, and clearly a subversion of international laws, conventions and resolutions.”
He accused the international community of treating the Palestinian/Israeli issue with kid glove.
He said: “The blatant gerrymandering by the International community in the handling of the legitimate cause of the Palestinian people must be brought to an abrupt end. Israel’s acts of impunity and its criminal occupation must be reined in. These unprovoked aggression and acts of violence by Israel are not, and cannot be, about security or law and order. They are clearly indicative of Israel’s thirst for supreme sovereignty over Palestine and its people. The conceited idea that Israel, as a Jewish majority nation-state, must secure and expand supreme sovereign control over the land of a historic Palestine has imbued Israel with the impetus to continue in its hostilities against the vulnerable Palestinians. The sheer impudence with which its carries out unprovoked attacks on Palestine with no serious consequences has further revealed the selective solidarity of the West and the warped diplomatic stance of the United Nations. While Israel continues its current aggression on Palestinians, the UN, as always, has veered away from blaming Israel.”