Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons announce "general mobilization"

A Palestinian welcome to the international positions in the Security Council regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Security Council held a public session to discuss violations in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

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Yesterday, the Palestinian Authority welcomed the international positions in the UN Security Council regarding preserving the historic status of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem.

And while Israel announced that it would take steps in response to the Palestinians' movements in the Court of Justice, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons had announced "general mobilization", in anticipation of imposing new "extremist" measures against them.

In detail, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO and Minister of Civil Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, Hussein Al-Sheikh, stated in a statement, “The international briefings in the Security Council are clear and explicit with regard to Al-Aqsa Mosque, attempts to harm it, and change the status quo.”

Al-Sheikh considered that this position represents "a message to the government of Israel and the dangers of its policy and procedures there, and holding it responsible for the escalation, and the results and repercussions of this policy towards the sanctities and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular."

For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the positions of the member states of the UN Security Council, "which clearly affirmed their refusal to change the existing historical, legal and political reality of the holy sites in Jerusalem, foremost of which is Al-Aqsa Mosque."

The ministry said in a press statement that the positions of those countries "expressed their rejection of illegal unilateral measures, affirmed their adherence to the two-state solution, and their keenness to launch a real peace process that leads to the embodiment of the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital."

The ministry also welcomed, "the international consensus that appeared in the session, to reject the extremist Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir's storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and considered it incitement and provocation that falls within the framework of his positions aimed at changing the status quo."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed, "its continuous demand to translate these positions into actions and measures to ensure that the violations of Ben Gvir and his followers will not be repeated, and that the status quo (the historical situation) will not change Christian and Islamic sanctities."

On Thursday evening, the UN Security Council held a public session to discuss the entrance of the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, on Tuesday, to Al-Aqsa Mosque, which sparked Palestinian and international criticism.

The session witnessed a heated confrontation between the Palestinian ambassador, who considered what happened "crossing the red line", and his Israeli counterpart, who belittled the whole issue.

In addition to the 15 members of the council, the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian ambassadors participated in this public session, which lasted two hours and was punctuated by very heated discussions.

Before entering the meeting room, the Israeli ambassador, Gilad Erdan, told reporters, "I am really, really shocked.

Why?

Because there is absolutely no reason to hold this emergency session.

no thing.

Holding a Security Council session about nothing is not worth it.

Erdan denied that Minister Ben Gvir's visit was a "breaking into Al-Aqsa Mosque" or a departure from the historical "status quo" related to the holy places in Jerusalem.

When the Israeli ambassador entered the Security Council chamber, he returned and repeated his speech.

The Palestinian delegate to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, responded by launching a violent attack on the Israeli ambassador and the new Israeli government.

In response to a question by Agence France-Presse, when he left the Security Council hall at the end of the session, the Palestinian ambassador welcomed "the unanimity of the members of the Security Council to defend the status quo."

On the other hand, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said yesterday that the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have announced "general mobilization", in anticipation of the imposition of new "extremist" measures against them.

The Prisoners' Club (a non-governmental organization) stated in a statement that the prisoners in all prisons "announced a state of comprehensive mobilization in preparation for a broad confrontation against the measures that the extremist government of Israel intends to impose, and the escalation of repression and abuse against them."

The statement condemned the visit of the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, to "Nafha" prison, the day before yesterday, and his issuance of threats to further harass Palestinian prisoners.

Ben Gvir announced his visit to Nafha prison, with the aim of "making sure that the prisoners will not get better conditions than before," in reference to the Palestinian prisoners.

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