MPs from the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc and deputies from the League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds assured yesterday on the need for a continued support of the Palestinian cause with all potentials in international forums, especially the support of the issue of the occupied Jerusalem.

   They stressed, during a meeting convened by the bloc with the Association of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds from Istanbul in the presence of many Arab parliamentarians across Skype technology, the need to fight normalization with the occupation and to expose the Israeli violations at the international level.

    Supporting the issue:

   The parliamentary meeting was opened by the word of the First Deputy Speaker of the PLC Ahmed Bahar who emphasized during his speech the need to the presence of an official and popular Arab and Islamic role in supporting the Palestinian cause, especially the developments in Jerusalem and its exposure to the Judaization, and the continuation of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and its serious repercussions.

     Bahr stressed the need to work by all means to fight the Zionist normalization, which constitutes a lid on the occupation crimes , as well as the issue of prisoners in Israeli jails and the targeting of Palestinian legitimacy by kidnapping of Representatives.

    MP Bahr also called for action to confront all schemes of the occupation for Judaizing Jerusalem and mobilize efforts to protect it, condemning the statement of the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the Jewishness of Jerusalem, which is a violation of international laws and resolutions.

   He also called for the formation of a legal teams to uncover the crimes of the occupation and to present them to the International criminal court, calling for parliamentarians to fight normalization with the occupation and to punish everyone who makes relations with the occupation, and to support the issue of prisoners and deputies kidnapped in Israeli jails.

   The role of parliaments :

    For his part, Sheikh Hamid al-Ahmar head of the Association of Parliamentarians for Jerusalem confirmed the centrality of the Palestinian issue and Al-Quds, saying that the Palestinian issue is an issue of all the Arab and Islamic nation and supporting it is obligatory.

   El-Ahmar said that the League is making its efforts to Support the Palestinian cause at all Arab and Islamic parliaments and international forums, explaining the importance of this meeting in the development of parliamentary work in order to activate the issue of Al-Quds and the Aqsa Mosque.

   Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque:

   For his part, MP Ahmed Abu Halabia reviewed Israeli threat to the city of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and its exposure to the ongoing violations, the daily incursions and continued arrests and deportations of the people of Jerusalem, land confiscation and house demolitions and settlement expansion in Jerusalem and the excavations.

  Legal teams :

    The Chairman of the Legal Committee MP Faraj al-Ghoul also called on the need for mutual cooperation and the formation of a legal teams to monitor and document all the Zionist occupation crimes and assistance to file suit to international courts and work on the trial of occupation leaders for their crimes against the Palestinian people, calling for work to expose the crimes of the occupation in all international forums.

 Culture of resistance :

    For his part, MP Mahmoud al-Zahar emphasized on the necessity of activating the culture of resistance in all Arab and Islamic parliaments, adding that the resistance is the only option for the Liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine, praising the role of the League of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds in the defense of the Palestinian cause and the issue of Jerusalem in particular.

   The meeting included several words from the deputies of the League of Parliamentarians for Jerusalem which confirmed the Support and the assignment of the Palestinian issue as it is considered a high priority in all parliamentarians, stressing their strong rejection to the process of normalization with the occupation.