The Arab Parliamentary Union (APU) condemned the opening of a tunnel under the Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem, saying it was "a flagrant violation of all resolutions of international jurisdiction and the provisions of international law."
This came in a statement issued by Atef al-Tarawneh, the Arab Parliamentary Union, on Tuesday, pointing out that the Israeli practices "aim to change the old city of Jerusalem and obliterate its historical features, especially the holy shrine and the Islamic and Christian sanctuaries adjacent to it. " And above in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, a Palestinian Christian Muslim.
Al-Tarawneh said in the statement that Security Council resolutions 2334 of 2016 "illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the need for the immediate and complete cessation of all settlement activities carried out by the Zionist entity, including East Jerusalem," warning of the activities of the "non-settlement" Legitimacy, which unleashed itself to bite the Palestinian territories, control public places and legitimize illegal settlement outposts along the Palestinian territories.
Al-Tarawneh called on the UN Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities and take immediate measures and binding resolutions to curb Israeli intransigence, stop excavations at the Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding area and end its flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law.
He also called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Secretary-General to "take responsibility for providing the necessary protection for the buildings of the Al-Aqsa Mosque through Palestinian institutions and to rescue them from attacks by Israeli settlers." He also called upon Arab and Islamic governments, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and national parliaments to shoulder their humanitarian and national responsibilities These practices.
