[ 27/02/2010 - 07:15 AM ]
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of the Hamas Movement, has advocated a sweeping intifada in the West Bank against the Israeli occupation and its violation of holy shrines.
Resheq, in a statement to the PIC on Thursday night, said that the confrontations that took place in Al-Khalil between Palestinian young men and the Israeli occupation forces over the past couple of days should continue.
He urged the Ramallah authority to free all detained Mujahideen and to stop curbing resistance against occupation.
The Hamas leader asked Islamic religious scholars to mobilize the Arab and Islamic masses against the Israeli decision to annex Ibrahimi mosque and Bilal mosque to its alleged list of Jewish historical sites.
He hoped that the Organization of Islamic Conference and the Arab League would adopt more practical measure in support of the Palestinian people and in face of the Israeli racist practices.
Meanwhile, addressing a march in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus on Friday to protest the Israeli decision, Resheq said, addressing the Arab regimes, "We had enough condemnations".
He called for firmer dealing with the "Zionist arrogance".
A day of rage in al-Khalil in defence of the Ibrahimi mosque
[ 26/02/2010 - 10:26 PM ]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Violent confrontations broke out on Friday afternoon between Palestinian protestors and IOF troops in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil near the Ibrahimi mosque and in the southern part of the city.
Residents of al-Khalil were protesting the Israeli inclusion of the Ibrahimi mosque on the list of Jewish heritage sites and to mark the 16th anniversary of the Ibrahimi mosque massacre, when an extremist American Jewish settler broke into the mosque during the dawn prayers and opened machinegun fire at Muslim worshipers killing 30 of them and wounding tens others.
Scores of Palestinian youth threw stones and set tyres alight closing the main road to block IOF troops who fired tear-gas and rubber-coated bullets at demonstrators.
More confrontations took place after the Friday prayers at the mosque when more than 3000 Palestinians participated in the protests.
More protests are expected on Saturday because of the intention of extremist Jewish settlers to enter the Ibrahimi mosque to commemorate the death of Barukh Goldstein who committed the massacre at hands of survivors who attacked him with fire extinguishers when he paused to load his machinegun with another magazine.
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