After a bloody night in Jerusalem … Arab and international condemnation, and Europe denounce the expulsion of the Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that 208 Palestinians were injured after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday evening, and fired sound and tear gas canisters at worshipers, and arrested a number of them, while Arab, regional and international reactions against the Israeli incursions continued.

The director of the Al-Jazeera office, Walid Al-Omari, reported from the Palestine Red Crescent that 208 Palestinians were injured in yesterday’s clashes, while 88 wounded were taken to hospitals, and 60 others were transferred to a field hospital, while the occupation forces prevented Red Crescent crews from reaching Jerusalem. Read also How does the settlements pose the greatest danger to the rest of the Palestinian territories?Foreign Policy article: Washington has enabled Israeli extremism With the commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba near, the people of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are on the threshold of a new Nakba

Al-Omari said, according to the Israeli police, that 17 of its members were injured, including an officer who was hit in the head.

He also referred to the current calm that prevails in Jerusalem and the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the entrances to the Old City, with the presence of massive deployment of the occupation forces and very wide reinforcements inside the Old City and at the entrances.

These events come amid growing anger over the possibility of expelling Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, which Jewish settlers claim their ownership of.

The Israeli Supreme Court is witnessing a hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah issue on Monday, on the same day as Jerusalem Day in Israel, an annual Israeli celebration of control of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said during a telephone interview with the official Palestine TV that he had directed the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations to request an urgent session of the Security Council.

For his part, the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that he had contacted the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries, and Haniyeh called in a speech to him on the Al-Aqsa satellite channel, the countries that normalized with Israel to end the normalization agreements and close their embassies in Tel Aviv, adding that what is happening now In Jerusalem, it is an intifada that must continue and will not stop.

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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said that the attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem amount to a crime against humanity.

Al-Maliki added, during a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart in Ankara, that the Palestinian Authority had asked the International Criminal Court to take a clear position on these attacks.

For his part, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that he agreed with his Palestinian counterpart to transfer the Jerusalem issue to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

The Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Fadi Al-Hidmi, described the attacks by Israel against Jerusalemites as a very dangerous harbinger, and Al-Hidmi confirmed in a previous interview on Al-Jazeera that the Palestinian government demanded an urgent international intervention to protect Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites.

The Deputy Director General of the Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem, Najeh Bikirat, said that the people of Jerusalem send a message to the Israeli occupation that Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinians, and Bakeirat added in a previous interview on Al-Jazeera that this message confirms that nothing stands in the way of the will of the Palestinians despite the siege that the occupation is doing. And fragmentation of their homeland.

The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Ikrimah Sabri, said that the provocative actions of the Israeli occupation against defenseless civilians were what triggered this uprising, and Sabri confirmed in a previous interview on Al-Jazeera that the Palestinians would not accept this occupation.

In international and Arab reactions, the US State Department said that the United States is extremely concerned about the escalating tensions in Jerusalem, including the Al-Haram al-Sharif area and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

The Foreign Ministry added that it is deeply concerned about the possibility of the evacuation of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods.

The US State Department urged Israeli and Palestinian officials to move decisively to calm tensions and stop the violence, noting that it is in contact with senior leaders on both sides to work to calm the situation.

The European Union said that violence and incitement by Palestinians and Israelis are unacceptable and those responsible must be held accountable.

He called on the Israeli authorities to urgently reduce tension in Jerusalem, and denounced the expulsion of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah and East Jerusalem, considering it worrying, illegal, and increasing tension.

In Jordan, the Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacked worshipers, a blatant and unacceptable violation.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry demanded that the Israeli police immediately remove the Al-Aqsa Mosque and allow the worshipers to perform their religious rites.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli security forces storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking Palestinian worshipers, and the Foreign Ministry spokesman affirmed Egypt’s complete rejection of any illegal practices such as settlement policy, confiscation of lands or displacement of Palestinians.

In Ankara, the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the attacks by the Israeli security forces against Palestinian worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Turkish Foreign Ministry statement called on the Israeli government to rationalize and put an end to this provocative and aggressive position immediately.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry also said that what the Zionist entity forces are doing in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa constitutes a war crime, and stressed the need for urgent international action.

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry also said that the storming of Al-Aqsa is a flagrant challenge to the feelings of Muslims and the principles of international law and the rules of human rights.

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry held the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for this dangerous escalation and the consequences it would entail, adding that the Israeli occupation’s provocations require swift international action to put an end to it and preserve the rights of the Palestinians.

The Qatari Foreign Ministry said that the occupation forces’ storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque is a provocation to the feelings of millions of Muslims in the world, and a flagrant violation of human rights and international covenants, and indicated the need for urgent action by the international community to stop the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people.

The Foreign Ministry affirmed Qatar’s firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry also expressed the Kingdom’s rejection of what was issued regarding Israeli plans and measures to evacuate Palestinian homes in Jerusalem and impose Israeli sovereignty over them.

The Ministry stressed that the Kingdom condemns any unilateral measures, any violations of international legitimacy decisions, and anything that may undermine the chances of resuming the peace process to achieve security and stability in the region.

For his part, Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb condemned the practices of the Israeli occupation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Al-Tayeb said in a post on his Facebook page that storming Al-Aqsa Square and violating the sanctities of God through a blatant assault on peaceful worshipers, and before that the assault with weapons on peaceful demonstrations in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem and the displacement of his people, Brutal Zionist terrorism in the shadow of a shameful global silence.