OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement affirmed that the Palestinian people will continue to protect and defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and will not allow Israeli occupation’s division and Judaization plans to pass, no matter what the cost.
Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday, “The incursion carried out this morning by the far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir, the occupation government’s “national security” minister, accompanied by groups of settlers into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy protection by the occupation forces, and performing provocative Talmudic rituals in it, comes as part of Israel’s systematic aggressive policy aimed at Judaizing the Al-Aqsa Mosque and forcibly imposing the temporal and spatial division.”
Hamas emphasized that this incursion represents a blatant violation of its sanctity and status, for the entire Islamic nation, and a blatant violation of international laws and UN resolutions, warning against the consequences of continuing these attacks, and holding the occupation fully responsible for their repercussions.
Hamas stressed that the right to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain the exclusive right of Muslims, and any attempt to change its status quo is playing with fire and a prelude to a comprehensive explosion for which the occupation government alone will bear the consequences.
Hamas called on the masses of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank and 1948 occupied territories to frequent the Al-Aqsa Mosque, stay in the holy site, and thwart the Israeli attempts to forcibly create a fait accompli in it.
It also renewed its call on the officials and peoples of the Arab and Islamic nation, led by the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to shoulder their responsibilities towards defending the Mosque against Judaization and to support the people in occupied Jerusalem who are continuously exposed to displacement and uprooting attempts.
