RAMALLAH, April 30, 2025 (WAFA) – The General Secretariat of the Arab League condemned the decision by extremist minister in the Israeli occupation government, Itamar Ben-Gvir, to close the Jerusalem Fund and Endowment, a charitable, developmental, and humanitarian institution.

In a statement issued by the Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories Sector on Wednesday, the General Secretariat of the Arab League said that this decision falls within the framework of systematic Israeli policies aimed at imposing new facts on the ground aimed at undermining the Palestinian presence and obliterating the Arab identity of occupied Jerusalem.

It also includes the ongoing closure of all institutions, associations, and bodies operating in East Jerusalem. This is a continuation of the crimes of genocide, displacement, colonization, Judaization, and annexation that the occupation authorities are persistently committing, in flagrant defiance and violation of the law and the will of the international community.

The statement warned against systematic Israeli policies aimed at Judaizing Jerusalem and breaking the steadfastness of the people of Jerusalem, calling on the international community to shoulder its moral and legal responsibilities in implementing international legitimacy resolutions, especially those related to the situation in East Jerusalem, through serious and effective steps that compel the occupation to reverse its racist colonial policy and comply with international legitimacy resolutions, and provide protection to the Palestinian people to enable them to exercise their right to self-determination and establish their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

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