KUWAIT: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday strongly denounced the storming of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque by an extremist minister of the Zionist government. In a press release, the ministry echoed Kuwait’s condemnation of such frequent practices that provoke the sentiments of Muslims around the world, break international legitimacy resolutions, and reflect continued Zionist entity occupation attempts to alter the existing historic and legal status of Jerusalem and its holy sites.

The ministry, therefore, called on the international community, particularly the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), to take on its due responsibilities to prevent and end the recurrence of such aggressions and to provide protection to the Palestinian people.

Zionist entity’s national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Thursday, triggering angry reactions from the Islamic countries, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan accusing the far-right politician of a deliberate provocation.

Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jasem Al-Budaiwi, strongly denounced the storming of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque by the extremist minister. “The continuation of these illegal practices in the Palestinian territories is a flagrant provocation to Muslims around the world, and a blatant attack on the rights of the Palestinian people,” said Al-Budaiwi in a statement.

The continuation of these attacks represents the Zionist occupation’s deliberate disregard of all international laws and humanitarian conventions, and threatens security and stability in the region, he added.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation strongly condemned the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The OIC said in a statement that Ben Gvir desecration of the mosque is a provocation of all Muslims’ sentiments, a flagrant breach of the international law and the mosque historic and legal status quo. The mosque is an exclusive worship place for Muslims and the occupation forces have no sovereignty over Jerusalem and the sanctities in the city, the OIC statement said, calling upon the international community to coerce the occupation into halting such recurring and dangerous breaches of the sacred locations and the freedom of worship. — Agencies