CAIRO, Saturday, June 24, 2023 (WAFA) – Egypt’s largest religious institution, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, today condemned Israeli settlers' raid on a mosque, tearing up copies of the Holy Quran and burning them in the village of Urif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the assault on Palestinians in several villages in the West Bank.

Al-Azhar stressed in a statement that the continuation of the Israeli occupation and its crimes under the eyes of the international community and its failure to prevent the attacks is unjustified complicity and a crime against humanity and constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and covenants that stipulate respect for religious sanctities and guarantees freedom of worship.

It stressed that the time has come to take a serious and unified Arab and Islamic stance towards the occupation, which has committed and continues to commit the most heinous crimes against the Palestinians, calling for swift and binding measures to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

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