The Israeli settlers’ calls to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Saturday and Sunday are desperate attempts to Judaise the Muslim holy site and impose its ‘sovereignty’ over it, as part of schemes to divide the compound temporally and spatially.

We warn the "Temple Mount" groups against exploiting occasions to implement their malicious schemes aimed at rebuilding the alleged temple and imposing a new status quo in the holy city.

We call on the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim nations to face off such malignant plots, protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and ward off attempts to Judaise Jerusalem with all means possible.  

The Israeli attempts to impose a temporal and spatial division at the Al-Aqsa Mosque are bound to fail in the face of the Palestinian people, who will continue to defend the mosque at any cost.

Haroun Nasreddin

 Head of Hamas' Jerusalem Office

Friday, 5 August 2022