The Arab League Tuesday condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem by hundreds of hardline Jews, led by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

“These extremists are pushing matters to the brink by provoking the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world,” Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.

The storming took place under the protection of Israeli police, which turned the Old City into a military barracks and imposed tight restrictions on the entry of worshipers, and therefore, the occupation government bears full responsibility for this provocative escalation and persistence in inflaming passions, Aboul Gheit’s spokesman Jamal Rushdi pointed out.

These repeated incursions into the flashpoint site are a breach of the historical and legal status quo in the city of Jerusalem, and are part of Israel’s scheme to impose a temporal and spatial division of the compound, he said.

“scoring political points through stir
ring up religious sentiments and provoking Muslims is a cheap and perilous strategy,” added Rushdi.

Source: Jordan News Agency