Barhoum warns of repercussions of imposing Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum held the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the consequences of its plan to impose Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa Mosque.

Barhoum, pointing to the repeated storming of the holy site, considered such plan a continuation of the religious war waged by Israel on the Palestinian people and their holy sites.

He denounced the position of many Arab and Muslim leaders who have given official cover and additional time for the negotiation process between the Palestinian Authority and the occupation.

“Some leaders have besieged and criminalized the Palestinian resistance, and prosecuted the defenders of the Palestinian people and their just cause, while the Oslo team, led by Abu Mazen, has continued to waiver our people’s rights”, the Hamas official said.

He warned, in a press statement on Tuesday, the Israeli occupation of the consequences of committing a new folly against the Palestinian sanctities, and called on the Palestinians in the 1948 occupied land, the West Bank and Jerusalem to intensify their presence in al-Aqsa Mosque in order to defend it.

He also demanded the Palestinian Authority led by Abbas and his negotiating team to stop the negotiations, to allow freedom of action for the resistance in the West Bank, to halt security coordination with Israel, and to return to the option of resistance to defend the Palestinian people, rights and holy places.

For its part, the Aqsa Foundation for Endowments and Heritage reported in a statement on Tuesday that the Knesset discussed in an extended session a proposal introduced by MK Moshe Feiglin to impose Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa Mosque.

It said that the Knesset Speaker decided to postpone the vote on the issue to a later date.

The foundation pointed out that the Knesset Internal Committee will discuss on Wednesday preparations for the occupation forces’ incursions into al-Aqsa during the Hebrew Passover, which will take place in a month and a half.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s government assigned the Elad Association, which is concerned with the settlement activity in the occupied territories and Jerusalem, with the management of historical Islamic places in Jerusalem, Haaretz newspaper said in its Tuesday edition.

The paper pointed out that Elad will control the southern side of the Buraq Wall and other Islamic historical places, and pointed out that it is working on Judaizing the Old City of Jerusalem.