Iran Press/ Asia: In recent days, many Islamic countries have condemned the Israeli troops' attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
On Sunday, April 17, several days after the attack began, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined the leaders of countries condemning Israel's actions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and condemned it!
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had told his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, that he condemned Israeli "intervention on worshippers" at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque and threats to its "status or spirit".
Erdogan condemns the attack as he warmly welcomed the Israeli president to Turkey a month ago.
The tension between Israel and the Palestinians has flared up in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past three weeks as the Jewish festival of Passover overlaps with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Israeli forces attacked Palestinian worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem in a pre-dawn raid on Friday.
More than 160 people were injured as Israeli security officers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades inside the courtyards and prayer halls of the mosque.
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The clashes occurred just hours after the regime’s forces killed another Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said 17-year-old Palestinian, Shawkat Kamal Abed, succumbed to his wounds a day after being shot during an attack conducted by Israeli forces in Kafr Dan village, northwest of Jenin. Before succumbing to his injuries, the teenager was transferred to Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin for treatment.
Announcing the death of Kamal Abed, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the latest fatality brought to seven the number of Palestinians killed across the occupied territory in less than 48 hours.
Fawaz Hamayel, from the town of Beita in the south of Nablus, succumbed to gunshot wounds by the Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday. Shas Kammaji, the brother of the Palestinian prisoner Ayham Kammaji, was killed in clashes in the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, and Israeli soldiers fatally shot Mustafa Faisal Abu al-Rub at the western entrance to Jenin.
Tensions had escalated in the occupied land since April 7, 2022, when Palestinians launched a retaliatory attack in the heart of Israel, Tel Aviv, as part of their resistance to the intensified Israeli crackdown. Since then, Israeli forces have been carrying out raids in different towns, especially in Jenin.
The attack was conducted when a Palestinian youth, identified as Raad Fathi Hazem, entered a pub on a crowded main street in Tel Aviv and began firing his weapon.
The 28-year-old, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, was killed by Israeli forces in a pre-dawn firefight near a mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan.
Palestinian resistance groups and the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah hailed Hazem’s action as a “heroic operation.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has also strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s shameless desecration of the sacred places in Palestine and their raid on fasting worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Khatibzadeh warned against the continuation of brutal and terrorist acts of the occupiers in al-Quds and occupied Palestine.
Criticizing the normalization of relations between some Arab countries and Israel, Khatibzadeh added that these crimes, which constitute a gross violation of international law and human rights, prove more than ever that the treacherous move by heads of state of some Islamic countries to normalize ties with the fake Israeli regime will not result in a change of behavior on the part of this entity that is by nature inclined to shed blood and create crises.
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