PA Calls on International Community to Intervene to End Israeli Aggression

 Israeli police clashes with Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Israeli police entered the compound before dawn as thousands of Muslims were gathered to perform prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, Jerusalem, 15 April 2022. (EPA)
Israeli police clashes with Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Israeli police entered the compound before dawn as thousands of Muslims were gathered to perform prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, Jerusalem, 15 April 2022. (EPA)
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PA Calls on International Community to Intervene to End Israeli Aggression

 Israeli police clashes with Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Israeli police entered the compound before dawn as thousands of Muslims were gathered to perform prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, Jerusalem, 15 April 2022. (EPA)
Israeli police clashes with Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Israeli police entered the compound before dawn as thousands of Muslims were gathered to perform prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, Jerusalem, 15 April 2022. (EPA)

The Palestinian presidency said attacks by Israeli settlers and the occupation forces against worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque amount to a “declaration of war.”

The international community should intervene immediately to “stop the Israeli aggression against Al-Aqsa mosque and prevent things from going out of control,” said Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

At least 152 Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli riot police inside Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday in the latest outbreak amid an upsurge of violence that has raised fears of a wider conflict.

The Palestine Red Crescent said most people were injured by rubber bullets, Israeli police batons and stun grenades at al-Aqsa mosque.

The attacks sparked Arab and Islamic condemnation.

Saudi Arabia issued a statement Friday denouncing the Israeli forces for raiding Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound and attacking Palestinian worshippers.

“This systematic escalation is a blatant attack on the sanctity of the Mosque and its significance to the Islamic nation and a violation of relevant international resolutions and covenants,” read a statement by the Saudi Foreign Ministry.

The Kingdom called on the international community to assume its responsibility in holding the Israeli occupation forces fully responsible for the repercussions of these ongoing crimes and violations on the defenseless Palestinian people, their land and their holy sites, and on the chances of reviving the peace process in the Middle East,” the statement added.

The Secretariat General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), for its part, deemed the developments a dangerous escalation, an attack against the entire Islamic nation and a flagrant violation of the international resolutions and charters.

It held Israel responsible for the repercussions of such daily crimes and offenses against the Palestinian people and their territories.

Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef al-Hajraf said Israel should respect the historical and legal status quo in occupied Jerusalem and its sanctities and halt all illegal acts.

He called on the international community to assume its responsibilities to preserve the safety of Al-Aqsa Mosque and worshipers, underlining the importance of Israel’s abidance by its obligations as an occupying power, in accordance with international humanitarian law.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez issued a statement calling for self-restraint to fully protect the Muslim worshippers and allow them to perform their Islamic rituals at Al-Aqsa Mosque as a “a purely Islamic endowment for Muslims.”

He reiterated rejection of all forms of violence and incitement, including the calls for storming the mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, and warned against the consequences of this attack on the stability and security of the Palestinian territories and the region.

For his part, Arab Parliament Speaker Adel bin Abdulrahman al-Assoumi said Israel’s attacks are provocative and considered a blatant violation of the basic human rights advocated by the international community, its states and institutions.

He called for a decisive international position to end the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people.



UK PM Starmer Recalls Cabinet to Discuss Gaza Peace Plan 

US President Donald Trump (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) arrive at the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain, 28 July 2025. (EPA)
US President Donald Trump (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) arrive at the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain, 28 July 2025. (EPA)
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UK PM Starmer Recalls Cabinet to Discuss Gaza Peace Plan 

US President Donald Trump (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) arrive at the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain, 28 July 2025. (EPA)
US President Donald Trump (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) arrive at the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain, 28 July 2025. (EPA)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will hold an emergency cabinet on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Gaza and a proposed peace plan as he comes under mounting pressure from his own party to recognize a Palestinian state.

Starmer has taken the rare step of recalling his cabinet during the summer holidays to discuss how to deliver more humanitarian aid to Gaza.

In a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Scotland on Monday, Starmer discussed the need for a ceasefire in Gaza and what he called the "revolting" humanitarian crisis.

Britain is working on the plan with France and Germany after a call between the leaders of the three countries last week.

Starmer has not shared details of the plan, but over the weekend he compared the proposals to the "coalition of the willing", the international effort to support Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire in its war with Russia.

Starmer's spokesman said he would discuss the plan with other international allies and countries in the Middle East.

War has raged in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas for the past 22 months. Israel has been facing growing international criticism, which its government rejects, over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

With warnings people in Gaza are facing starvation, growing numbers of lawmakers in Starmer's Labor Party want him to recognize a Palestinian state to put pressure on Israel.

British foreign minister David Lammy will attend a United Nations conference in New York on Tuesday to urge support for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.

Successive British governments have said they will formally recognize a Palestinian state when the time is right, without ever setting a timetable or specifying the necessary conditions.

The issue has come to the fore after President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday France would recognize Palestine as a state.

Starmer has so far rejected plans to immediately recognize a Palestinian state, saying he was focused on "practical solutions".

Last week, more than 200 British members of parliament from nine parties signed a letter Friday calling for an immediate recognition of a Palestinian state.