With its silence, the U.S. stands complicit in the criminal offenses against the Palestinian individuals who are denied of every human right.
April 7 was “Excellent Friday” for Western Christians, the day when they think Jesus was held on a cross. However it was a “Sad Friday” in Jerusalem. To the Muslims of the world, this is the third Friday of Ramadan, and today worshippers trying to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem were prevented entry to the location and severely beaten by Israeli Police batons. Street suppliers and store owners were also attacked by Israeli Cops. It was certainly a sad Friday.
Who gave the order to assault the worshippers inside the Al Aqsa Mosque?
Kobi Shabtai is the Commissioner of the Israel Cops. In 2021, he bought the authorities to avoid access to the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem in a comparable escalation of stress then.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir leaked a recording of a discussion with Shabtai, in which he said, “There’s absolutely nothing we can do. They murder. It remains in their nature. That’s the mentality of the Arabs.” There were calls by Israeli Arab political leaders for his termination because of his racist remarks.
Why did Israeli cops storm Al-Aqsa Mosque?
On April 4, about 80,000 worshippers attended the night prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. A few of the Palestinians stayed overnight in the mosque to hope in a tradition observed throughout Ramadan. Some voiced concern to protect the 3rd holiest site in Islam from extremist Jewish inhabitants who had actually threatened to come to the mosque to provide animal sacrifices in honor of Passover, which started on April 4.
The extremist Jewish inhabitants have a strategy to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build a Jewish Temple on its website.
By the early hours of April 5, Palestinians had actually filled the streets near the mosque to pray the morning prayer. The Israeli authorities were purchased to prevent Palestinians under the age of 40 to go into the location for prayers. By evening, the cops entered the mosque by force and apprehended lots of worshippers after badly beating both males and females hoping inside.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said in a declaration “What occurred in Jerusalem is a major crime versus the adorers. Prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque is not with the consent of the [Israeli] occupation, but rather it is our right.”
Israeli air campaign on Gaza
In reaction to the attacks on Al Aqsa Mosque, numerous rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. The Israeli flying force then targeted multiple locations throughout Gaza triggering damage to homes and the Al-Durrah Children’s Hospital in Gaza City. The Geneva Convention prohibits assaulting civilian health centers.
Israel has imposed a blockade upon Palestinians in the Gaza Strip considering that 2007, an unlawful act of cumulative punishment. Israel’s repeated attacks upon the Gaza Strip have mainly affected civilians, resulting in prospective war criminal activities and criminal offenses versus humanity according to global examinations. Israel uses U.S. weapons to enforce its blockade and attack the Gaza Strip in infraction of U.S. laws.
Lebanon rockets
A Palestinian resistance group in southern Lebanon introduced rockets the other day at Israel from Marjayoun in southern Lebanon in response to the Israeli attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli forces then retaliated by striking southern Lebanon, however both sides have given that stopped, and no casualties were reported. The flare-up came at a time when Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh remains in Lebanon on a private see.
Previous attacks
The Arab League met in an emergency situation session after the Israeli authorities raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque left at least 12 Palestinian hurt, and 400 arrested on April 5, who stays in custody at Atarot police station in East Jerusalem.
The raids continued into the morning as Israeli police were videoed assaulting and pressing Palestinians out of the substance and avoiding them from praying, while Israeli extremist inhabitants were allowed under cops protection. The police utilized stun grenades, tear gas, batons, and rifles to beat the worshippers. Some victims suffered respiratory injuries due to the gas which was thrown into the mosque after the cops first broke the upper windows.
The Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said, “The extremist approaches that control the policy of the Israeli federal government will cause widespread conflicts with the Palestinians if they are not put to an end.”
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that the Israeli authorities avoided them from reaching the mosque to attend to three hurt victims who required hospitalization.
Israeli authorities stated in a statement that they were forced to go into the compound after “masked agitators” locked themselves inside the mosque with fireworks, sticks, and stones. No violence would have happened if the cops had actually remained outside. The police had never been threatened by individuals inside the mosque, and it was an unprovoked attack on individuals praying inside a closed structure.
“Israel is committed to maintaining liberty of worship, liberty of access to all faiths and the status quo and will not allow violent extremists to alter that,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu is calling the victims inside the mosque ‘extremists’ when in reality it is his residents, the extremist Jews who provoked the attack by insisting on going to the mosque throughout Passover. Netanyahu’s government is an alliance between his celebration and extremist Jewish celebrations who call for the deportation of all Palestinians, and refuse all require human rights for Palestinians. Netanyahu is bound to be beholden to those extremists, although he has actually mocked them in the past. If he were to stand up to them now, the alliance would be broken, his government would fall, and he would go directly to jail. The only thing keeping him out of prison on several corruption charges is those extremists like Ithamar Ben-Gvir.
The U.S. reaction
The UN, Turkey, the U.S., Canada, and a number of other countries and bodies have actually expressed issue about Israeli forces storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Washington said on Wednesday that it was “incredibly concerned” about the violence.
“We prompt all sides to prevent further escalation,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed press reporters. “It is necessary now more than ever that Israelis and Palestinians work together to de-escalate stress and restore calm.”
“We remain exceptionally concerned by the continuing violence and we prompt all sides to avoid more escalation,” White Home National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
Considering that 1948, the U.S. has actually supplied Israel with over $125 billion in military aid, which changed the Israeli forces and police into one of the world’s leading forces. Israel has been designated as a U.S. Major Non-NATO Ally, and yet the U.S. has never ever when held Israel liable for war criminal activities, criminal activities against humankind, and the apartheid state in Israel.
With its silence, the U.S. stands complicit in the criminal activities against the Palestinian people who are denied of every human right.
Turkey
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the Israeli police raid, calling such acts in the mosque compound a “red line” for Turkey.
“I condemn the repellent acts versus the first qibla of Muslims in the name of my country and people, and I call for the attacks to be stopped as quickly as possible,” Erdogan stated. “The name of this is the politics of repression, the politics of blood, the politics of justification. Turkey can never stay quiet and unmoved in the face of these attacks.
Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated, “We need to see the Israeli federal government moving in its technique, and Canada is saying that as a dear and close and unfaltering good friend to Israel, we are deeply worried about the instructions that the Israeli government has actually been taking.”
UAE
The UAE foreign ministry stated in a statement, “The UAE called on Israeli authorities to halt escalation and avoid intensifying tension and instability in the region.”
Saudi-Iran contract
The recent repair of complete diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia has actually changed the Middle East. Now, the two biggest powerhouses in the region have put differences aside and are willing to work together for peace and security. Neither nation has normalized a relationship with Israel, even though Netanyahu mentioned in December 2022 that getting a handle Saudi Arabia was one of the two greatest objectives of his brand-new administration.
The U.S. has actually not provided any leadership for years on an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. In the meantime, the U.S. has slipped from worldwide management, especially from the days of impact in the Middle East, since the area has actually turned independent of dictates from the Oval Workplace.