Iran’s Foreign Ministry:

World Must Stop Apartheid in Sheikh Jarrah

Date: 19 February 2022 - 22:15

News ID: ۱۰۰۱۸۸

TEHRAN -- Iran said Saturday the international community and global organizations must fulfill their “legal and human” commitments to the Palestinian people and put an end to the apartheid policies of the child-killing Israeli regime.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemned the Zionist regime’s racist policies forcing Palestinians living in the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to leave their homes.
He expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people as the main and true residents of this ancient land and the cradle of divine religions.
The spokesman stressed the need to support the Palestinian people and stop demolition of their homes and the confiscation of their lands which are a continuation of the apartheid policies of the child-killing Zionist regime.
Tensions heightened across the Palestinian territories on Sunday, when Israeli forces and illegal settlers renewed their attacks against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah. The neighborhood has been the scene of frequent crackdowns by Zionist forces on the Palestinians protesting against the threatened expulsion of dozens of families from their homes in favor of settlers.
The initial tensions that erupted in Sheikh Jarrah last year in part sparked a May 2021 war between the Israeli regime and resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Thursday warned the occupying regime of Israel against crossing “red lines” in Sheikh Jarrah or any other area in the occupied Al-Quds.
The Palestinian Information Center cited senior Hamas official Basem Na’im as saying that the crossing of Hamas’ red lines in Sheikh Jarrah, Al-Aqsa Mosque, or any other area in the occupied Al-Quds would have “serious repercussions.”
In a Saturday statement, Hamas called for active participation locally and globally in the International Quds Week.
The Palestinian resistance movement called on Muslims to actively attend the event, which is scheduled to be held from February 25 to March 4.

It hailed the global initiative in support of Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa Mosque as the focal centers of the fight against the Zionist enemy and support for the Palestinian cause.
The movement called on Palestinians, Arab and Muslims nations, ulema and the elite, official, partisan and popular institutions and all free peoples across the world to participate actively in such important events by all means possible.
It said the International al-Quds Week is an opportunity to renew allegiance to Al-Quds and Aqsa Mosque, strengthen the Palestinian cause and keep alive the cause of Palestine’s liberation.