Plans to Judaize occupied al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque will fail: Hamas
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that escalating incursions by Israeli regime officials and settlers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound will not succeed in changing the Islamic identity of occupied al-Quds.
In a statement released on Sunday, Hamas said recent actions in occupied al-Quds, especially those of the past two days, would not alter the holy city’s Islamic character.
The movement accused Israeli authorities of tightening restrictions on residents of al-Quds and on the city’s holy sites, expanding security measures, and providing cover for settlers entering the al-Aqsa compound.
Hamas pointed in particular to activity around Bab al-Qattanin and in the courtyards of al-Aqsa. It said the incidents took place amid visits by hawkish Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Knesset member Amit Halevi, other regime officials, and extremist settlers.
The group also warned against attempts to impose new facts on the ground at the holy site, including efforts to bring so-called “plant offerings” into the compound.
Hamas said such steps would neither create rights for the Israeli regime or settlers at al-Aqsa nor change its Islamic identity.
Hamas called on Palestinians across the West Bank and the territories occupied in 1948 to maintain and strengthen their presence at al-Aqsa and to resist Judaization plans and settler incursions.
It also urged Arab and Muslim countries to take urgent and responsible action, and called for international and regional pressure to halt the incursions and protect the holy sites of al-Quds.
Separately, Hamas political bureau member Khaled Meshaal warned that Israeli measures around al-Aqsa were “paving the way for total control and domination over the site.”
He cited a reported 40-day closure of the mosque, the “imposition of temporal division,” and attempts to create “spatial division” by restricting access to parts of the compound. He said al-Aqsa stood at a “crossroads” and called for steps to protect it.
The comments came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured tunnels beneath the al-Aqsa compound as settlers visited the site.
On September 20, hundreds of Israeli settlers, including Ben-Gvir, entered the al-Aqsa compound under heavy police protection. The Palestinian Authority’s al-Quds Governorate said about 800 people entered the site. The Muslim World League condemned the visits and called for the mosque’s established legal and religious status to be preserved.
The status quo governing al-Aqsa dates back decades. Under that arrangement, the compound is recognized as an Islamic holy site, with the al-Quds Islamic Waqf responsible for its religious administration and maintenance. Palestinian and Muslim authorities have repeatedly accused Israel of undermining that arrangement since occupying East al-Quds in 1967.
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