OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
Senior Hamas official Haroun Nasiruddin has warned that Jewish temple mount groups’ declared intent to perform animal sacrifice rituals at the Aqsa Mosque reflects persistence in targeting the Islamic holy site and igniting a religious conflict.
A few days ago, temple mount groups incited settlers to try to slaughter sacrificial animals inside or around the Aqsa Mosque compound during the Passover holiday.
“The Palestinian people will not condone seeing the Aqsa Mosque being targeted regardless of the sacrifices and all forms of resistance will remain an unbreakable shield and barrier against the occupation and its schemes,” Nasiruddin said in a statement on Saturday.
“Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque lie at the center of the conflict and represent the focal point of the struggle, which will stop only when the occupation is removed and the holy sites are cleansed of its defilement,” Nasiruddin added.
The Hamas official described the Israeli attempts to defile the Aqsa Mosque with animal sacrifices as a “deliberate act of provocation against the Muslim nation.”
He urged the Palestinian masses in Jerusalem and 1948 occupied Palestine to move to protect the Aqsa Mosque during the coming days, and appealed to the Arab and Muslim nations to shoulder their religious and national responsibilities towards their holy site.
