The Hamas Movement on Sunday said that the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is the core of the Palestinian struggle against the “Zionist enemy”.
“Despite the Israeli occupation’s escalating crimes against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its Palestinian defenders, Palestinians have always been steadfast and vigilant against the Israeli occupation’s anticipated attacks,” the Movement affirmed in a press statement on the 53rd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa arson attack.
The Movement said that the heinous crime of burning Al-Aqsa will be a testament to the “Zionist extremist groups’ terrorism and never-ending attacks against the holy site”, including the desperate attempts to divide it spatially and temporally.
“Al-Aqsa will always be a place of worship for Muslims only despite the Israeli attempts to change its Arab and Islamic identity,” the Movement underlined.
Hamas reiterated that it will keep defending Al-Aqsa with all means possible, including comprehensive resistance, until full liberation and return, calling for rejecting the Israeli occupation of Palestine and its accelerating offensives against Palestinians in addition to supporting the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem and reinforcing their steadfastness.
