Thousands of Iranians showed up on Friday across the country to mark “Jerusalem Day” in support of the Palestinians, as tensions have been high for more than a month in the Palestinian Territories and Israel.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Day of Al-Quds (Jerusalem in Arabic) takes place every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, the month of Muslim fasting, in solidarity with the Palestinians.
The rallies, which have been canceled for the past two years due to the pandemic, took place on Friday in Tehran as well as in major cities such as Mashhad (northeast), Isfahan (center) and Tabriz (northeast), according to image broadcast by IRIB on state television.
Death in America and Israelshouts of protesters waving Palestinian and Iranian flags. Jerusalem is ourscan we read on one of the posters.
The protests came when clashes erupted earlier in the Al-Masjid compound in Jerusalem between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police, leaving 42 people injured.
To the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, what is happening in the Palestinian territories is canceling the normalization projects with the Zionist entity (Israel, editor’s note) and all agreements like Oslo or the two-state solutionhe said in a televised speech in Arabic at Palestinian address.
The Oslo Accords signed in 1993 by Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the United States provide limited autonomy to Palestinians in the West Bank.
” The Islamic Republic of Iran supports the Palestinian resistance and denounces normalization (including Israel). What some Arab countries have done is infidelity. “
The UAE normalized relations with Israel in 2020 under a series of US-brokered agreements. Bahrain and Morocco followed, while Sudan also agreed to normalize relations with the Jewish state, although it has not yet finalized the agreement.
Over the past two weeks, violent clashes have injured more than 250 Palestinians in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site of Islam and the holiest site of Judaism known as the Temple Mount, located in East Jerusalem. , a Palestinian area occupied by Israel. since 1967.
This violence came in a context of escalation after four attacks carried out in Israel since the end of March that left 14 dead, including an Israeli Arab policeman and two Ukrainians. Two of the attacks were carried out in the Tel Aviv metropolis by Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.
Following these attacks, the Israeli army conducted several operations in the West Bank marked with deadly clashes. A total of 26 Palestinians and three Israeli Arabs were killed, including the attackers.
Source: Radio-Canada
