KUWAIT: Kuwait'sNational Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem has labeled Israel's raids onAl-Aqsa Mosque "brutal," saying the latest assault once againdemonstrates that the "occupational entity's calls for peace arefalse." Several Palestinian worshippers were injured on Sunday after beingattacked by Israeli police, who were guarding 450 Israeli settlers as theyreportedly broke into the mosque on the first day of the Islamic Eid Al-Adhaholiday.
"It isutterly woeful and shameful to leave Jerusalemites facing their enemy alone,without any support or backing," the chief lawmaker said in a statement.He urged the need for comprehensive Arab, Islamic and global action acrosspolitical, human rights and cultural forums worldwide to put pressure on an"occupational entity that knows only the logic of oppression andpower." "If our military conditions are unfavorable, this does notprevent daily action on the political, cultural and human rights spectrums,"he added. - KUNA