Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Mauritanian counterpart Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug discussed the necessity of convening an emergency, open-ended meeting by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).







The Foreign ministers, on phone, stressed that the meeting should address the incursions and attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against al-Aqsa Mosque and worshipers.

Also, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian invited his Mauritanian counterpart to pay a visit to the Islamic Republic.

Both sides also underlined the need for taking collective measures by Islamic countries to counter the Israeli regime's aggression.

On Wednesday night, and for a second night in a row, heavily-armed Israeli forces stormed Muslims' third holiest site and removed peaceful worshippers who were staying at the site to observe Itikaf, a non-mandatory ritual usually held in Ramadan.

Videos from the raid on Tuesday show the occupation forces brutally beating defenseless worshipers with batons and riot guns. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded and arrested in the attack.

Besides, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the ongoing situation in the occupied Palestine territories where the Israeli regime is stepping up its crackdown against the Palestinian people.

The Zionist regime in recent days has been attacking Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied al-Quds city, injuring hundreds of worshippers and making arrests. The attacks on Palestinian worshippers during the fasting month of Ramadan have drawn widespread criticism from Islamic countries.

The Iranian president, during a phone talk with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo on Thursday, called for the OIC emergency meeting in order to make a joint decision on defending the rights of the innocent Palestinian people and confronting the Zionist regime’s crimes.