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Arab League condemns escalating Judaization of Jerusalem


   CAIRO, Aug 20 (KUNA) -- The Arab League on Wednesday condemned the escalation of the Judaization of Jerusalem and the current Israeli aggression on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
   Implementing this systematic Scheme is done under the cover of Israeli aggression on the Strip which has been reeling under the brutal offensive since July, the League's Palestine sector said in a statement.
   The Israeli aggression used the maximum level of terrorization and destruction through attacking properties, and infrastructure and demolishing homes, turning them into heaps of rubble and twisted metal in the Strip, according to the statement.
   The statement warned of continuing attempts of Israeli occupation authorities to Judaize Jerusalem, stressing that Israeli will pay much for that action.
   Israel started division of Al-Aqsa Mosque into areas for Muslims and areas for extremist Jews, the statement noted, adding that League has repeatedly warned against that acts.
   The occupied Jerusalem has been subject to an unprecedented attack by Israeli and religious extremist organizations, which push extremists every day to attack Al-Aqsa Mosque, the statement added.
   The Palestinian Health Ministry said 2,036 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza while Israel says it has killed hundreds of Palestinian militants in fighting that, the United Nations says, has displaced about 425,000 people. (end)
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