The head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has said on Sunday that al-Quds (Jerusalem) is “the center of the conflict and the Palestinian people will continue to defend it in an open battle with the occupiers, and will resolve it to our benefit no matter how long it takes.”
“We have assured all parties that have reached out to us that Al-Aqsa is our mosque. It is only ours. There is absolutely no right of Jews to it, and our people have the right to reach it, pray in it and stay in it. We will not be subject to any measures of Zionist repression and terrorism,” Haniyeh said in a press release.
“Our people are defending themselves and their land, and they have the natural right to continue to resist. Jerusalem is the focus of the conflict, and we will continue to defend it in an open battle with the occupiers, and we will resolve it to our benefit no matter how long it takes,” he said.
This morning, hundreds of Zionist police officers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to suppress Islamic worshippers and force them to leave the site, in preparation for the incursion of 728 Zionist settlers, which resulted in the injury of several Palestinians.
