APA – Casablanca (Morocco) – Morocco has “strongly condemned” the recent incursion by certain extremists and their supporters into the Al-Aqsa Mosque esplanade in Jerusalem, as well as the “provocative acts” committed, MAP reported on Thursday, citing a foreign ministry statement.
Morocco reiterates its rejection of all measures that undermine the legal and historical status of the city of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and its holy sites, including Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as any restrictions on the access of worshippers to its precincts,’ the statement quoted by the official press agency said.
The kingdom, whose sovereign HM King Mohammed VI chairs the Al-Quds Committee of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), stressed ‘the need to preserve the civilisational and Islamic character’ of Jerusalem’s holy sites and ‘to avoid all forms of escalation and provocation’.
Morocco, under the leadership of its king, reaffirms that the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in the region remains dependent on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the June 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital,’ the statement continued, as reported by MAP.
This position, reaffirming the kingdom’s attachment to the status of Jerusalem, comes after what was described as unusual provocations by Israeli extremists inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, during the holy month of Ramadan.
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