YANG di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has expressed concern and sadness over the Israeli military aggression and violent attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Gaza Strip.

Comptroller of the Royal Household for Istana Negara, Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, said Sultan Abdullah described the incursions and ongoing attacks against the third holiest mosque in Islam and the Palestinians in the last days of Ramadan as heinous, cruel and inhumane.

He said that the Agong, in line with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s special message on Palestine yesterday, expressed support for Malaysia to lead, together with Indonesia and Brunei, to issue a joint statement to strongly condemning the Israeli Zionist regime’s brutal attacks on Palestinians.

“Sultan Abdullah also said the Malaysian government supports and welcomes the proposal for a virtual emergency meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation to discuss the issue of Israeli terrorism against Palestinians, scheduled for today,” he said in a statement in Kuala Lumpur today.

It was reported that the aggression against the Palestinians started with the attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque on May 7, followed by airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday.

So far, more than 119 Palestinians have reportedly been killed and hundreds more injured. – Bernama, May 16, 2021.

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