The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has said the 41st sorrowful anniversary of the vicious attempt to burn the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was observed yesterday, came at a time of continued Israeli violations which jeopardize the building and sanctity of the mosque through the excavations carried out by Israeli occupation authorities beneath its foundations and under repeated storming of the yards of the first of the two Qiblahs by Israeli extremists. In a statement issued here, the OIC said the anniversary also comes under escalating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, affecting the different aspects of life in the occupied Palestinian territories. "Israel continues to impose a suffocating blockade on the Gaza Strip, persists in plundering and confiscating the Palestinian lands and in expanding and building settlements and the apartheid wall." --MORE
