OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan)The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli police forces’ storming of the Hijra Mosque in Beit Hanina in occupied Jerusalem during prayer time, calling it a “blatant desecration” that reflects Israel’s total disregard for all religious and moral values.
Haroun Nasser al-Din, member of Hamas’s political bureau and head of its Jerusalem affairs office, said on Wednesday that Israeli soldiers’ intrusion into the mosque with their boots on, and forcing worshippers to interrupt their prayers, reveals “the depth of the occupation’s moral decay and its complete contempt for all humanitarian standards.”
He stressed that this shameful act is part of the occupation’s ongoing religious war and its open aggression against Islamic and Christian holy sites, “just as it violates the sanctity of the land and the people.”
Nasser al-Din warned of the growing dangers in Jerusalem amid continued raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, intensified restrictions on Palestinians, military checkpoints, searches of residents and buses, and the ongoing wave of arrests and home invasions.
He pointed out that Jerusalem’s residents face daily escalation in various forms of organized repression and government-backed terror.
“These repeated violations constitute a dangerous religious war targeting Al-Aqsa Mosque and all Islamic and Christian sanctities in Jerusalem,” he said, emphasizing that “no matter how brutal the occupation becomes, it will never succeed in imposing a Judaized reality.”
Nasser al-Din called on Palestinians in Jerusalem and inside the 1948 occupied territories to maintain constant presence and steadfastness at Al-Aqsa Mosque, filling it with worshippers and defenders, to reaffirm that it is an exclusively Muslim right and to reject the occupation’s attempts to divide it spatially and temporally.
He also urged the Arab and Muslim nations, as well as international human rights organizations, to shoulder their moral and legal responsibilities and to act urgently to stop the escalating violations against Jerusalem’s holy sites and residents, expose Israel’s crimes, and hold it accountable for its ongoing terrorism against land, people, and sacred places.
