Hamas: battle against Israel will last until the liberation of Al-Aqsa
GAZA - Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups will continue their battle against the Israeli regime until al-Aqsa mosque is completely liberated from Zionist occupation.
Ali al-Amoudi, head of Hamas' media department in the Gaza Strip, where the movement is based. "Al Quds is our red line and the Resistance does not lay down its arms," the official added, according to the Palestine Information Center news agency. Al Amoudi spoke during a large demonstration that took place in Gaza in support of resistance fighters, in the occupied holy city of al-Quds and in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli regime proclaimed existence in 1948 after occupying large swathes of the Palestinian territories, including western al-Quds, during a Western-backed war. Israel occupied more land, namely the West Bank, which includes eastern al-Quds, and the Gaza Strip in another similar war in 1967. The Zionist regime withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but held the enclave under a cruel and total siege accompanied by continuous military aggression against the enclave. The al-Aqsa mosque complex, the third holiest site in Islam, is located in the old city of al-Quds. Ultra-Orthodox Israeli lawmakers and extremist settlers regularly raid the compound in the occupied city under the tight protection provided by the Israeli military. Hamas and other Palestinian groups denounce the raids as a means by the regime to try to tamper with the status quo of the sacred complex. Pointing to the Israeli regime and its settlers' provocations, al-Amoudi also said that the Israeli occupation is waging a religious war against Palestinian holy sites in al-Quds. However, he stated that the Palestinian people in all the occupied territories will always be united in facing the Israeli occupation until there is no more place for the invaders. "All the [various Palestinian] fronts are united across Palestine," Amoudi said, describing Gaza as the "arrowhead" of the ongoing struggle against the occupying regime.
