Today, Wednesday, the Arab Ministerial Committee charged with taking action to confront illegal Israeli policies and measures in the occupied city of Jerusalem held its seventh meeting at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

The meeting was chaired by the Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Malki, and the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, prior to the convening of the 160th regular session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers.

The committee listened to the briefing given by Minister Al-Maliki on the illegal Israeli policies and practices in the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the prejudice to its status and its existing legal and historical status, and the aggression against Islamic and Christian sanctities, foremost of which is the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and attempts to divide it temporally and spatially, and the increase in the frequency of its incursions and excavations. Below it, the escalation of home demolitions campaigns, the targeting of Palestinian citizens by killing, arrest, deportation, forced displacement, confiscation of property and lands, and the approval of settlement projects in the city of Jerusalem, which aim to change the face of the city and distort its Arab identity and character according to systematic Israeli colonial settlement plans.

In his briefing to the Ministerial Committee, Al-Maliki warned that these illegal Israeli practices and policies would undermine the foundations of peace and stability in the region, calling for Arab and international action to protect the city of Jerusalem and preserve its legal and historical status, including not opening missions. diplomacy in it or transferring it to it, which violates international law and United Nations resolutions related to the city of Jerusalem.

In turn, Minister Safadi presented the developments of the Israeli abuses and violations in Jerusalem, the work efforts of the committee since its sixth meeting, the contacts it made following the repeated incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif by the Israeli government minister and groups of Israeli settlers under guard and the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, and the moves taken It was carried out by member states with internationally influential states to confront the Israeli violations that target occupied Jerusalem, its people, and its Islamic and Christian sanctities.

At the end of its work, the committee called for organizing visits by the committee to influential countries and regional and international organizations in the international community in order to work to mobilize supportive positions for Palestinian rights and shed light on Israeli violations and practices.

And it demanded action at the legal level and holding the Israeli occupation authorities accountable for their violations and crimes in the city of Jerusalem.

The Ministerial Committee called for entrusting the League's missions and ambassadors of the member states of the Committee to take action in influential countries and organizations around the world to expose the illegal practices of the Israeli occupation authorities in the city of Jerusalem, and to take deterrent international stances towards them.

It also called for assigning the Secretary-General, in coordination with the member states of the Committee, to initiate the development of the necessary mechanisms for the Committee's movement in accordance with the contents of this statement and based on the decision to establish it.

In their interventions, the ministers affirmed that East Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state, rejecting any attempt to detract from the right to Palestinian sovereignty over it, and any unilateral measures that affect the legal status of Jerusalem, and the need to adhere to the principle of a just and comprehensive peace conditional on the end of the occupation, and the embodiment of the independent and sovereign Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital. occupied territories on the lines of June 4, 1967, on the basis of the two-state solution, and in accordance with international law and the Arab Peace Initiative.

The meeting also affirmed that the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, with its entire area of 144,000 square meters, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Department of Endowments for Jerusalem and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque of the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites is the legal authority with exclusive jurisdiction to manage all the affairs of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. , and organizing access to it, and expressed their support for the Hashemite Custodianship over the Arab, Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, which His Hashemite Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein undertakes in protecting these holy sites and preserving their Arab, Islamic and Christian identity, and the existing historical and legal status in them.

The ministers also praised the continuous efforts made by King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, to defend Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and noted the projects being implemented by Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, the executive arm of the Committee under the supervision of His Majesty, to establish the Jerusalemites on their land and support their steadfastness.

The Committee includes in its membership: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its capacity as chair of the current Arab Summit, the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, the State of Palestine, the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Republic of Tunisia, and the State of the United Arab Emirates, in its capacity as the Arab member of the Security Council, and the Secretary General of the League of Arab States.

The seventh meeting of the committee comes based on the decision of the League of Arab States Council No. (8660) issued on (11/5/2021) on the extraordinary session regarding the Israeli aggression against the occupied city of Jerusalem and its people, including the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which decided to form An Arab ministerial committee to move and communicate with the permanent members of the Security Council and other internationally influential countries.