Arab League to meet following Al-Aqsa clashes

Published July 28th, 2015 - 10:19 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Foreign minsters from the Arab League are due to meet in Cairo next month to discuss Israel’s raid on the Al-Aqsa compound, a senior Palestinian official told AFP.

Nineteen mosque guards were injured on Sunday after Israeli troops allowed right-wing Jewish settlers into the Al-Asqa complex, while restricting entry for Palestinians.

Fifteen Arab nations will hold a meeting on August 5 to discuss “Israeli escalations at Al-Aqsa Mosque, continuing settlements, extra-judicial arrests and assassinations and forced displacements,” chief Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said during a press conference.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas strongly condemned the raid on one of Islam’s holiest sites, according to AFP.

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