Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahhar has called on all national forces to close ranks to back Jerusalem's intifada, reiterating his Movement's adherence to the option of resistance on every inch of the Palestinian soil.

In his Friday sermon in a Gaza Mosque, Zahhar stated that the current intifada restored the stature of the Palestinian cause, which was undermined by the continual peace talks with the occupation. 

"Al-Quds intifada had foiled the occupation's attempts to divide the Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially," he underlined.

Zahhar warned of the recent understandings with US secretary of state John Kerry about allowing the Jews and non-Muslims to visit the Aqsa Mosque, calling on Palestinian youth to abort such schemes.

"This intifada has started and we do not know when it will end, but we are sure that we are going to achieve a victory over the usurping occupation because it is a promise from Almighty Allah," he emphasized.