Intl. Quds Day embodies Muslims’ vigilance against Israel, accomplices: Qalibaf
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has highlighted the significance of International Quds Day, describing the annual pro-Palestine event as the embodiment and supreme symbol of the Muslim world’s vigilance against the occupying Israeli regime and its accomplices.
In a message sent to the 4th International Congress of the Holy Quds in Tehran on Tuesday, the speaker said that Israel’s renewed wave of hatred and racism against defenseless Palestinians in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound “has no justification, and it indicates the Zionists’ desperation.”
“In the past months, the Zionist regime has been entangled in internal crises, which, by their own admission, have been unprecedented in [the regime’s] ominous lifetime. Through fabricating regional crises, the regime seeks to distract attention from what is happening within its fake borders,” he wrote.
“The Islamic Ummah should vigilantly follow up on the current developments in Palestine and use all means at its disposal to expose the destructive role of the Zionist regime in the region and the world. International Quds Day is the main symbol of the Muslim world’s vigilance against the Zionist regime and its accomplices.”
International Quds Day was designated by Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic. It is marked annually across the world on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. This year, the event falls on April 14.
Last week, heavily armed Israeli forces raided al-Aqsa Mosque twice, wounding dozens and arresting hundreds of Palestinians, who were praying at Islam’s third holiest site.
Images of the attacks showed detained Palestinian worshipers lying face down with their legs and arms bound behind their backs, and others with their hands tied being led into a vehicle.
The violence, which took place during the Muslim the fasting month of Ramadan, was followed by Israeli airstrikes on Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip amid rocket fires by Palestinian resistance groups toward the occupied territories.
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