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On January 15-16 the International Coalition for the Support of Jerusalem and Palestine, which comprises civil society organizations from across the world, held a conference in Istanbul attended by senior Arab and Muslim officials from some 50 countries. The chairman of the Turkish organization IHH, Bülent Yildirim, said at the conference: "We have in our hands an invincible weapon - the weapon of truth and fearlessness of death." A draft of the conference's charter, published by a news agency close to Hamas, called on the Arab and Muslim peoples to pool their efforts in aiding the Palestinians, and said that the Zionist occupation of Palestine was illegitimate since Palestine was Arab and Islamic land belonging to the Palestinian people. The charter also warned of Israeli plans to destroy Al-Aqsa in order to build a "false temple" in its place - a step that would threaten the peace and stability of the region and the world.
Source: www.palestine-info.info,