OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, has emphasized that every Palestinian, Muslim and human being has a duty to respond to the call for a general strike and participate in events to support the bereaved Gaza.
Sheikh Sabri stressed, in a press statement on Monday, that “the general strike is the least duty we can do to support Gaza.”
On Monday morning, a general strike was observed across the West Bank and Jerusalem in response to calls for a strike in support of Gaza and in condemnation of the Israeli massacres in the war-torn enclave.
Universities and schools, banks, shops, and official and civil institutions in the West Bank were closed, while calls on popular masses to carry on confrontation with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued.
Youths burned rubber tires and containers and blocked roads in the town of Al-Tur in occupied Jerusalem at dawn Monday, to denounce the Israeli massacres in Gaza.
Activists on social media platforms had launched calls for a comprehensive strike around the world, in solidarity with the people of Gaza in the face of the genocidal war carried out by the IOF.
For his part, Hamas leader Abdul Rahman Shadid called on the masses of the Palestinian people to participate in the general strike and to go out in mass anger marches in the West Bank to reject the Israeli aggression on Gaza and to support the resistance.
“All our people in the West Bank must play their decisive and important national role, especially in light of the horrific massacres and brutal crimes practiced against their brothers in the Gaza Strip,” Shadid said.
The Hamas official underscored that the Palestinian people and resistance will fail all the Israeli malicious plans against Gaza and the West Bank. “What the occupation could not achieve through negotiations will not be gained through war and criminality,” he added.
