Hamas: Israeli Plan to Build Synagogue Under Aqsa Serious Violation

(Photo: PeaceMakers International)

Gaza, MINA – Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Wednesday affirmed that the Israeli government’s plan to build a synagogue under al-Aqsa Mosque constitutes a serious violation of the Palestinians’ full right in Jerusalem and the holy site.

Hamas’s spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a press statement that establishing the synagogue is a new Israeli crime against the Palestinian people and holy sites that requires escalating the Jerusalem Intifada, PIC reported.

The Israeli government has recently inaugurated a new synagogue inside the tunnels adjacent to al-Aqsa Mosque.

The project is part of a large-scale Israeli plan aimed at planting religious Jewish structures in the heart of Old Jerusalem to change the Islamic and Arab identity of the holy city.

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It will be the second massive Jewish edifice in the Old City after the Hurva synagogue, which was built in 2010.(R/04/RS5)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)