250 human rights and civil organizations strongly condemned the terrorism of the occupying and apartheid state “Israel” and its continuous attacks against the Palestinian people. As on Friday, April 15, the occupation’s special forces attacked worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, beat them with batons, fired gas bombs, sound bombs and rubber bullets at them.

The organizations considered the continuation of the occupying state to violate the rights of the Palestinian people amid the world’s countries using of double standards as a form of “anti-Palestinians” and a blatant silence about the crimes of the Israeli occupation.

The organizations affirmed that these attacks by the occupation forces in Al-Aqsa Mosque come within a Judaization scheme that aim to implement the temporal and spatial division in the mosque, similar to what was done in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, within the framework of a vision that aims to show the conflict as a religious not,  not as a natural result of  the Israeli colonization and occupation of the Palestinian land, and the serious Israeli violations of public international law, international human rights law and humanitarian law, especially the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I of 1977.

The organizations indicated that the occupation authorities, since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, have been planning to turn the month into a bloody month for the Palestinian people, and have escalated the policies of extrajudicial executions since the beginning of this year.

The organizations considered that the world’s silence about the crimes of the Israeli occupation is a denial of the rights of the Palestinian people and a form of normalization with the Israeli occupation.

The organizations urged the International Criminal Court to expedite the investigation of the crimes of the occupation which amount to crimes against humanity, and called on the High Contracting States to oblige the occupying and apartheid state to apply and respect the first common article in the Geneva Conventions, which stipulates the High Contracting Parties pledge that the Convention shall be respected and ensured that it is respected in all circumstances.

The organizations also called on the Human Rights Council and all human rights bodies to take a firm stand against the violations of the occupying power in occupied Palestine, and urged the UN Security Council to hold an emergency session to take a decision regarding the brutal acts of the occupying power against the Palestinian people that threaten international peace and security, in accordance with Chapter VII to the Charter of the United Nations.

The organizations also called on all countries of the world to stop normalization with the Israeli occupation and sever all relations with it, similar to what happened with the apartheid regime in South Africa, and urged them to stop supplying the Israeli occupation with weapons, in accordance with the standards of the Arms Trade Treaty.