Oklahoma leader of Muslim community reacts to unrest in Jerusalem

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Tons of have been injured as unrest continues in Jerusalem after nightly clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters.KOCO 5 spoke with leaders inside our native Muslim group reacting to the newest in Jerusalem.The unrest stems from an Israeli Supreme Courtroom determination concerning what some name the attainable eviction of Palestinian households from a neighborhood in east Jerusalem that Israel captured within the 1967 conflict. “The Palestinians are the indigenous individuals of the land,” stated Imad Enchassi, the senior imam for the Islamic Society of Higher Oklahoma Metropolis.Enchassi, who’s Palestinian and nonetheless has household there, instructed KOCO 5 that tensions in Jerusalem have been like this for many years, with Palestinians combating for primary human rights.”What you are seeing is nothing new. It doesn’t shock me, nevertheless it’s nothing new. I hate to name it that, however that is what it’s,” Enchassi stated. “Eviction is when you do not pay hire. We have now to make use of the laborious fact, and the reality is a whole neighborhood is being ethnically cleansed.”Enchassi stated it is a tough time for Oklahoma’s Palestinian and Muslim group as a result of it’s the holy month of Ramadan.”The Palestinians right here and the Muslims right here, they observe their excessive holy day by doing a variety of prayers for justice for the Palestinians for all this violence to cease for primary civil rights for the Palestinians,” Enchassi stated. “Individuals most likely actually can be gathering cash, sending it via authorized charities, to assist these households.”A brand new listening to with the Israeli Supreme Courtroom can be scheduled inside 30 days on these attainable evictions.

Tons of have been injured as unrest continues in Jerusalem after nightly clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters.

KOCO 5 spoke with leaders inside our native Muslim group reacting to the newest in Jerusalem.

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The unrest stems from an Israeli Supreme Courtroom determination concerning what some name the attainable eviction of Palestinian households from a neighborhood in east Jerusalem that Israel captured within the 1967 conflict.

“The Palestinians are the indigenous individuals of the land,” stated Imad Enchassi, the senior imam for the Islamic Society of Higher Oklahoma Metropolis.

Enchassi, who’s Palestinian and nonetheless has household there, instructed KOCO 5 that tensions in Jerusalem have been like this for many years, with Palestinians combating for primary human rights.

“What you are seeing is nothing new. It doesn’t shock me, nevertheless it’s nothing new. I hate to name it that, however that is what it’s,” Enchassi stated. “Eviction is when you do not pay hire. We have now to make use of the laborious fact, and the reality is a whole neighborhood is being ethnically cleansed.”

Enchassi stated it is a tough time for Oklahoma’s Palestinian and Muslim group as a result of it’s the holy month of Ramadan.

“The Palestinians right here and the Muslims right here, they observe their excessive holy day by doing a variety of prayers for justice for the Palestinians for all this violence to cease for primary civil rights for the Palestinians,” Enchassi stated. “Individuals most likely actually can be gathering cash, sending it via authorized charities, to assist these households.”

A brand new listening to with the Israeli Supreme Courtroom can be scheduled inside 30 days on these attainable evictions.

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