Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 09/01/2011
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, strongly condemned Israel for starting to demolish the residence of the late Mufti of the city of Al Quds/Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Huseini, in the district of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Al Quds. The Secretary General declared that the confiscation of the Mufti’s residence and then its demolition to make way for the unlawful construction of a Jewish settlement represents a flagrant violation of international law and an infraction against the Forth Geneva Accord which prohibits the occupier state from altering the existing features of the occupied territories and from confiscating private property or establishing settlers there. The Secretary General indicated that the Organization of the Islamic Conference will act at all possible levels to reverse the Israeli plans. He also appealed to all states and concerned international institutions to undertake immediate action to deter Israel from proceeding forward with the implementation of its designs and its violations of international law, particularly as to this settlement which Israel plans to build on the grounds of the Mufti’s home with the aim of creating new fait accomplis such as to disrupt the geographical continuity of the Palestinian districts in occupied Eastern Al Quds/Jerusalem. It is to be noted here that the Secretary General received in his office on 8th January 2011 a delegation of the heirs of the Mufti of Al Quds, and discussed with them appropriate moves and ways to protect the Mufti’s home and to expand and bring to their completion the steps already initiated by the OIC in this respect at the international level.
