Formation of Popular Committee for the Defense of Al-Aqsa in Gaza

Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, head of Jerusalem International Foundation in Gaza, announced the establishment of the Popular Committee for the Defense of Al-Aqsa, calling on all Palestinian forces and resistance factions to participate effectively in this Committee.

Abu Halabiya, during a seminar entitled “Liberation of Jerusalem between the Armed and Popular Resistance” held on Thursday, denounced the Palestinian division, and called for uniting the ranks in order to confront the occupation and its plans that target the Islamic and Christian holy sites.

He stressed that the Arab and Islamic nation, if it has the will, is able to liberate the Palestinian land.

In a worksheet entitled “the Achievements of the Armed Resistance in Jerusalem”, the Hamas leader Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri stressed that the city of Jerusalem represents a part of the Islamic sanctities and will never be waived.

For his part, the leader of the Islamic Jihad Ahmad Mudallal warned of occupation plans to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque through the ongoing excavations under it, and hailed the steadfastness of the worshipers and students in the Aqsa Mosque.

Leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Jamil Majdalawi said in a worksheet entitled “the Possibility of Combining between the Armed and Popular Resistance”: “The popular resistance is wider than the armed resistance.”

The speakers agreed that the futile negotiations constitute cover for the Israeli attacks against the Palestinians and Jerusalemites, and called for releasing the resistance in the West Bank and Jerusalem to confront the occupation schemes.