OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement said the offensive practices of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and its increasing harassment of Jerusalemites, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, while unleashing settlers to carry out more violations, requires a firm Islamic position that deters the extremist occupation government from continuing its violations and showing disregard for Muslims’ feelings and holy sanctities.
In a statement on Friday morning, Hamas added that the occupation’s ongoing aggression and arbitrary measures aimed at preventing Palestinians during the month of Ramadan from performing night prayers on Fridays at Al-Aqsa Mosque, for the second time, constitutes a serious escalation of a religious war, a systematic targeting of Muslim rituals, and a form of Judaization of Jerusalem and its holy sites.
Hamas called on the Palestinian people in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the 1948 occupied territories, to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not to submit to the occupation’s measures and restrictions, and to continue to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the desecration of settlers and systematic Judaization plans.
On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation police forces prevented Muslim worshipers from continuing their night prayer on the second week of the month of Ramadan.
This coincided with calls to sit in Al-Aqsa Mosque and stay in the holy site until Friday dawn in response to the occupation’s repressive measures.
Since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to a series of Israeli attacks on its sanctity.
The night prayer was prevented on the first Friday of Ramadan, in the first step of its kind since 2014, as worshippers and those who were staying in the mosque for worship purposes were forcibly expelled out of the Mosque.
