DAMASCUS (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinian refugees along with Syrian citizens and the Arab and Islamic communities participated on Friday in a mass march in Damascus in solidarity with occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque on the occasion of international day for Jerusalem.
The march started with the participation of leaders of Palestinian factions and a number of the diplomatic corps of Arab and Muslim countries accredited to Damascus.
The masses chanted slogans and carried banners condemning the policies of concessions practiced by the PA team in Ramallah and expressing solidarity with the resistance option as the sole means towards ending the Israeli occupation and restoring the usurped Palestinian rights.
For his part Talal Nassar who is in charge of organizing Hamas mass activities in the Syrian arena explained that the Palestinian and Syrian masses went on the march to express their solidarity with occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque which are threatened by the Zionist schemes pointing to the Israeli attempts to judaize the holy city and to destroy the Aqsa Mosque.
Nassar warned of the threats posed by the autumn conference called for by the American administration confirming the Palestinian people’s adherence to resistance as a strategic option to repel the Israeli occupation and to restore all usurped rights.
For his part Ahmad Jibril the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) condemned the policy of concessions exercised by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas underlining that Abbas’s policy does not represent the will and interests of the Palestinian people and that the resistance and steadfastness are the only ways to confront the Israeli aggressions.
In the same context thousands of people also went on mass marches on Friday in Lebanon and Iran to condemn the Israeli threats against occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque and to express their solidarity with the constitutionally-elected government headed by premier Ismail Haniya.
