Spokesperson for Hamas Movement Hazem Qasem said Saturday that calls by the radical “temple mount” groups to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday which marks the anniversary of Nakba under the protection of the Israeli occupation authorities “are a grave escalation.”
The Jewish calls “aim at provoking the feelings of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim world and at pushing for an open conflict that the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility for its repercussions” he added.
Hamas spokesman stressed that the repeated raids into the al-Aqsa compound are nothing more than a desperate attempt that will not succeed in imposing a new fait accompli and change the historical fact that the mosque is Palestinian Arab and Muslim.
He further said that all aggressive policies adopted by the Israeli occupation will not succeed in enforcing a temporal and spatial division at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
“We stress that the Palestinian people will win the battle over the al-Aqsa Mosque” he said.
He further called on Palestinian citizens of Jerusalem the West Bank and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 to frequent the al-Aqsa Mosque in order to foil malicious Israeli schemes against the Muslim holy site.
