OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement warned of the Israeli decision to finance the settler storming of Aqsa Mosque as “dangerous” and called on Arab and Islamic countries “to take responsibility for protecting the holy sites.”
In a statement issued Tuesday, the Movement said that the Israeli decision came after a systematic escalation by the fascist occupation government in all forms, including provocative incursions, and attempts at temporal and spatial division.
“This fascist extremist government is playing with fire, as it does not care about the repercussions of its Zionist behavior in undermining the sanctity, status and identity of the blessed Aqsa Mosque, for our Arab and Islamic nation,” the Movement added, noting that this dangerous escalation against the first Qiblah of Muslims and the third of the two holy mosques, threatens to spark a broad religious war.
“The occupation’s frantic and accelerating attempts to change the status quo in the Aqsa Mosque will not succeed in obliterating or concealing the historic facts that it is an Islamic endowment that does not accept division, was and will remain purely Islamic.”
Hamas called on the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation to “assume responsibility” and act in unison to protect the site and for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to mobilize and maintain a presence there.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli Ministry of Heritage declared that it has allocated 2 million shekels (about $543,000) to support far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s incursions into the Aqsa Mosque Compound.
Ben-Gvir, who has personally stormed the compound with armed security and extremist settlers on multiple occasions, expressed his support for building a synagogue in the holy Muslim site yesterday.
