Zionist Troops Clash With Palestinians Before Eid al-Fitr Prayers
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have clashed with the Palestinians who were heading to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound to perform Eid al-Fitr prayers.
The confrontation erupted after Zionist troops stepped up their presence at the courtyards of the al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the holy site by installing large barriers.
The regime forces also attacked Palestinians at Bab al-Asbat (Lions Gate) of the Old City of al-Quds.
This year, only officials from the Islamic Waqf (Endowment) organization managed to perform the Eid prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Each year, tens of thousands of Palestinians pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque on Eid al-Fitr, but the compound has remained closed this year over the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In another development, a group of Italian lawmakers have called on Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to join a widening international chorus of opposition to the Zionist regime’s controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, and act urgently to stop the move.
Seventy parliamentarians, in a letter addressed to the 55-year-old head of government, asked him to denounce the Tel Aviv regime’s decision to annex the Jordan Valley and apply Israeli law to settlements in the West Bank in violation of international law.
They also urged the legislature to take appropriate measures, both at national and European Union levels, to prevent the annexation move, which seeks to pull the plug on the so-called Zionist-Palestinian so-called peace process.
The last round of Zionist-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was the regime’s continued expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds by the Zionist regime.
The confrontation erupted after Zionist troops stepped up their presence at the courtyards of the al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the holy site by installing large barriers.
The regime forces also attacked Palestinians at Bab al-Asbat (Lions Gate) of the Old City of al-Quds.
This year, only officials from the Islamic Waqf (Endowment) organization managed to perform the Eid prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Each year, tens of thousands of Palestinians pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque on Eid al-Fitr, but the compound has remained closed this year over the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In another development, a group of Italian lawmakers have called on Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to join a widening international chorus of opposition to the Zionist regime’s controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, and act urgently to stop the move.
Seventy parliamentarians, in a letter addressed to the 55-year-old head of government, asked him to denounce the Tel Aviv regime’s decision to annex the Jordan Valley and apply Israeli law to settlements in the West Bank in violation of international law.
They also urged the legislature to take appropriate measures, both at national and European Union levels, to prevent the annexation move, which seeks to pull the plug on the so-called Zionist-Palestinian so-called peace process.
The last round of Zionist-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was the regime’s continued expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds by the Zionist regime.