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Thu 06 Apr 2023 9:50 pm - Jerusalem Time

Washington prevents the issuance of a statement by the Security Council condemning the Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa

According to media reports, the United States prevented an agreement on a statement condemning Israel on behalf of the UN Security Council on Thursday regarding the occupation authorities' consecutive incursions into Al-Aqsa Council in occupied Jerusalem.


The Security Council held a closed session "on the escalation in Jerusalem, Gaza and Lebanon ," and according to Israeli media, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan , was in contact with the US mission to the United Nations, and asked the US administration to prevent the publication of a press statement on behalf of the Security Council on this subject. .


The UN Security Council held an emergency session today, Thursday, to discuss the Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque, at the joint request of Palestine and Jordan, and with the support of the UAE and China.


The request came after the brutal attack by the occupation forces on the worshipers and seclusion in Al-Qibli Mosque, forcing them to leave it by force, in preparation for the storming of settlers in large numbers to perform Talmudic rituals and slaughter offerings inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.


Since the beginning of this year, the Council held its monthly sessions on time, but it held emergency sessions and closed consultations, due to the continuous violations by the occupation forces of Jerusalem and the sanctity of worshipers, in addition to the increase in settlement activity.


It is noteworthy that the occupation forces stormed, on Tuesday night, Wednesday, and last night, the Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Tarawih and Fajr prayers, and brutally assaulted the worshipers and seclusion in the Al-Qibli prayer hall and forcibly removed them from it, injuring and arresting hundreds of them, in preparation for the settler groups’ storming, which sparked local, Arab and international reactions. Rejecting and condemning these incursions.

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Washington prevents the issuance of a statement by the Security Council condemning the Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa

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