9/9/2024–|Last update: 9/9/202407:58 PM (Makkah Time)
The State of Qatar condemned the escalating Israeli attacks on civilians and infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, and the continued incursions of settlers into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation forces.
The condemnation came from the Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lolwah Al-Khater, during her meeting with the Palestinian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Farsin Aghabakian Shahin.
According to a statement by the Qatari Foreign Ministry, the meeting discussed developments in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to a number of topics of common interest.
Al-Khater also condemned what she described as “the persistence of the policy of Judaizing Al-Aqsa Mosque and changing the legal and historical status of the Holy City of Jerusalem.”
In parallel with its war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, the Israeli army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of 692 Palestinians, the injury of about 5,700, and the arrest of more than 10,400, according to official Palestinian institutions.
The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has resulted in more than 135,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of children, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.