The condemnation continues … Israel arrests Palestinians and prepares for escalation after a bloody night at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that 208 Palestinians were injured after the Israeli occupation forces – by sound and tear gas bombs – stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday evening, while the police were preparing to deal with a large crowd of worshipers, who are expected to celebrate the Night of Power, while Arab, regional and international reactions have continued to condemn The Israeli incursions.

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.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Israeli forces had arrested 14 Palestinians in Jerusalem in connection with the clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adrai said – in his tweet on Twitter – that the Chief of Staff had instructed to prepare for the escalation after meeting with military and security officials.

The Anadolu Agency quoted Israeli media as saying that the Israeli police announced raising the state of alert in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in anticipation of the Palestinians’ revival of the Night of Power.

The official Kan channel said that a record number of worshipers are expected to arrive at Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Night of Power, which falls on Saturday night. It is expected that delegations of Palestinians from inside the country will arrive at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, in response to an invitation launched by the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab People (the highest representative body for Palestinians in the 48 districts), according to the same source.

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

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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.

The United Nations expressed its grave concern about the escalation of tensions and violence in and around Jerusalem, in light of the escalation of Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinian neighborhoods in the city.

In a tweet he posted on Saturday on his Twitter account, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Thor Winsland, said I call on everyone to act responsibly and maintain calm.

“Everyone must respect the status quo of the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem for the sake of peace and stability,” Winsland added.

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.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun confirmed today that Jerusalem will continue to bleed as long as the principle of force and displacement prevails and depends on international protection without deterrence. Aoun added – in a tweet published by the Lebanese Presidency on its Twitter page – “If peace is the goal, then everyone, especially the international community, will remember that no Peace without justice or justice without respect for rights. “

Earlier today, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the “Israeli attack against the Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem, as settlers displace the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood under the eyes of the whole world, in a behavior that does not differ from the practices of ethnic cleansing.”

It also strongly condemned “the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the barbaric and brutal attack on innocent worshipers with sound bombs, gas and rubber bullets, in blatant and blatant violation of human rights and international laws and covenants.”

Mauritania called on the international community to urgently intervene to stop the Israeli displacement and settlement process against the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and the Mauritanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it followed with great dismay the growing violence in East Jerusalem and the forced displacement of its residents in favor of settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, in flagrant defiance of the law. International and UN resolutions.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars said that it appreciates the steadfastness of Jerusalemites and other people of Palestine towards what they are exposed to by the occupying enemy, considering the recent Israeli practices against the Palestinians in Al-Aqsa Mosque as “state terrorism.”

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its condemnation of the Israeli forces’ storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Salvation and Development Front in Iraq, led by Osama Al-Nujaifi, the former Vice President of the Republic, condemned the attacks it described as “sinful” against worshipers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque and Arab citizens in East Jerusalem, calling on the international community to intervene. To stop these “dangerous abuses”.