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Occupation and injustice is something Palestinians have faced everyday since 1948, but it becomes especially unbearable to watch – not only for myself as a Palestinian from the diaspora, but for any person with a sense of humanity – when Palestinians face brutality inside a place of worship.
Al-Aqsa is the third holiest site to Muslims around the globe, that makes it a sacred place for over two billion people worldwide. And yet, when Muslim Palestinians are met with brutality and police raids whilst praying during the holiest month of the year for what feels like the 100th consecutive year, Muslims leadership worldwide is complicit.
Whilst Palestinians are risking their lives everyday to protect a historical landmark that is considered sacred to these two billion Muslims, the world stays silent. And if history has taught us anything, it is that silence is as harmful as complicity.
On Tuesday the 4th and Wednesday the 5th of April, the world watched idly as videos and reports emerged across the internet of Palestinians being beaten, brutalised and forcibly raided inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the middle of their prayers. To commit such an unlawful and inhumane act is vile any day of the year, but to repeatedly do so during Ramadan, a month that is bestowed upon Muslims to commit to good deeds and reconnect with God, is treason to all of humanity.
Hands off Al-Aqsa, and hands off Palestine.
