Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said “Our battle for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa is sacred and open against the (Israeli) occupation and will not stop unless the goals of our people are achieved in liberation return and the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Barhoum added that Jerusalemite youths have displayed solid steadfastness and heroism inside the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and in Occupied Jerusalem.
He stressed that the “unswerving positions of the Palestinian resistance its messages to the occupation and the great sacrifices of our people in Jerusalem which are embodied in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and at its gates reflect the readiness of our people and the resistance to defend the blessed Mosque and to pay the price of purifying it from the impurity of the occupation.”