HAMAS: LIQUIDATION OF AL-AQSA “A DREAM THAT WILL NEVER COME TRUE”

Al-Quds, 1 Dzulhijjah 1436/14 September 2015 (MINA) – Israel’s dream to enforce a spatio-temporal division on Muslims’ holy Al-Aqsa Mosque is a dream that will never come true, Hamas Movement said Sunday (14/9).

Hamas said in a statement that the Israeli occupation has taken advantage of Arabs’ and Muslims’ preoccupation with home affairs to perpetrate preplanned schemes for the division of Muslims’ holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.

“We’ve been keeping tabs on the Israeli assaults on al-Aqsa which have recently materialized in random shooting of peaceful Muslim sit-inners, arson attacks on the Qibli Mosque, and sacrilegious break-ins by fanatic Israelis,” Hamas said, The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

“Such Israeli assaults on Al-Aqsa will certainly have serious repercussions,” the statement read.

Hamas called on the international community to urgently step in so as to prevent the Israeli occupation from desecrating the Al-Aqsa and alleviate simmering tension sparked by Israeli sacrilegious schemes.

The group also urged the Palestinian Authority to halt all forms of security coordination with the occupation and give way to armed resistance to protect Islamic places of worship.

It further called for maintaining sit-in vigils across al-Aqsa plazas.

Hamas statement was released a few hours after the Israeli occupation forces broke into the plazas of al-Aqsa and the Qibli Mosque and unleashed heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.

According to local sources, at least 110 peaceful Muslim worshipers and sit-inners sustained wounds due to the break-ins.

The Israeli occupation troops reportedly denied Muslim men and women, below the age of 50, along with Muslim learners and supervision staff, the right to enter the Mosque.(T/P008/R04)
Mi’raj Islmic News Agency (MINA)