Bahrain Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the Arab League Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulrahman Al-Khalifa today attended a pan-Arab meeting, following a demand submitted by the Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Palestine to discuss the Israeli flagrant encroachments on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Quds (Jerusalem). The Arab delegations discussed steps to counter the recrudescent Israeli assaults on the Islamic and Christian religious shrines in occupied Jerusalem. They slammed Israel for its repressive Israeli policies for curbing the freedom of worshipping and recurrent assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque and East Jerusalem. In statement yesterday, the delegations affirmed the status of East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian State. They also condemned the Israeli authorities for arresting A-Quds Grand Mufti and continuing flagrant assaults on Palestinians. The delegations welcomed the UNESCO decision to set up a fact-finding commission to investigate the untenable situation in Al-Quds and all other Israeli repressive the occupation of the city in 1967. The ambassadors decided to task the Arab group in New York to seek a UN resolution condemning systematic Israeli assaults on Al-Aqsa mosque and the Palestinian people reeling under the yoke of the Israeli occupation. The ambassadors also appealed to the Arab and Islamic organizations and fund projects in support of Al-Quds.