The head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya has said that the issue of Jerusalem is a top priority for the Movement stressing that Jerusalem is the core of the Palestinian struggle with the Israeli occupation.
In a TV show on the 35th founding anniversary of the Hamas Movement Haneyya said that the Palestinian people and the Movement will continue defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque until there will be no place for the invaders.
“The Hamas Movement will always be the spearhead of defending the Al-Aqsa Mosque against the Israeli Judaization plans until full liberation of the Palestinian lands and sanctities” the Hamas leader affirmed adding that resistance is the only way to confront the Israeli crimes.
Haneyya underlined that the 35th anniversary of founding Hamas coincides with escalating Israeli crimes in addition to growing Palestinian resistance activities in Jerusalem and the West Bank stressing the importance of national unity while confronting the Israeli occupation and settlers’ attacks.
He warned that the new Israeli government insists on Judaizing Jerusalem adding that the escalating Israeli Judaization and settlement expansion plans in Jerusalem and West Bank would lead to an explosion in the region.
