Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim condemned Israel’s atrocities and crimes against the oppressed Palestinian nation, and warned against the plots hatched by the Zionist regime to Judaize the Holy Quds.
“Today the world of Islam has been awakened and Muslims know that Judaization of al-Quds is a Zionist plot …,” Hakim said, addressing the 28th Meeting of the International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Wednesday.
He reiterated that the Muslim youth know that they should support the Palestinian nation to achieve their legitimate rights.
“Palestine will always remain a pivotal issue of the Muslim world,” Hakim said.
Israel has long been pursuing a Judaization plot to change the identity of the region. Ever since the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel has been increasingly exercising its Judaization scenario all across the occupied lands in Palestine and the Golan Heights (in Syria).
Over the past decades, Israel has tried to change demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.
Over half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds. The international community considers the settlements illegal.
In 2012, Israel’s inner cabinet decided to speed up construction of homes for Jews in Arab East Quds (Jerusalem) and in other nearby settlements to punish the Palestinians for winning membership in the UN cultural agency, UNESCO.
Since then, Israel has issued announcements for the construction of 2,057 new homes in Arab East Quds and 1,241 in the West Bank, official figures show.
At least 200,000 Israelis live in a dozen settlement neighborhoods in East Quds, which was captured by Israel in 1967 and annexed in an aggressive move never recognized internationally.
