TUNISIA (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya delivered the Friday Khutba (sermon) yesterday in Kairouan Mosque of Tunisia and talked about the importance of resistance as a means to liberate the occupied holy city of Jerusalem.
In his speech Haneyya criticized the Palestinian Authority’s peace meetings with the Israeli occupation state describing them as “futile” and talked about the Palestinian people’s steadfastness in the face of the Israeli aggression and blockade.
The Palestinian leader’s speech reflected in general the Palestinian people’s pride in their Islamic and Arab depth.
A spokesman for the Palestinian premier said Kairouan Mosque was crowded for the first time in decades with thousands of Tunisians who flocked earlier in the morning into the Mosque to listen to Haneyya’s Khutba.
In another context member of the political bureau of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement Sayed Ferjani said in a press statement yesterday that Haneyya’s visit to Tunisia took place in response to a shared Palestinian-Tunisian desire.
Ferjani described Haneyya’s visit as positive and said the Palestinians wanted to congratulate the people of Tunisia on the success of their revolution.
He stressed that the Tunisians received Haneyya as a democratic leader who came to power through democratic elections.
“This is an elected government regardless of the inter-Palestinian disputes in which we as Tunisians do not like to interfere” the Tunisian official added.
