Fuente:
Maan News Agency
Fecha de publicación:
15 Oct 2015
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The deputy head of the Hamas movement on Thursday visited Palestinians at al-Shifa hospital who had been shot and injured by Israeli forces during recent clashes near Gaza's border with Israel.
During the visit, Ismail Haniyeh made political statements in support of what he repeatedly referred to as "Jerusalem's Intifada."
"The message of our wounded is that Gaza, despite the distance and its deep suffering due to the siege and war, still stands behind the battle of Jerusalem, and that Gaza is in the heart of Jerusalem’s Intifada,” he said.
Haniyeh added that "Jerusalem's Intifada has sent a message that Jerusalem is not a red line, but instead the title of the strategy in the conflict with Israel.”
Haniyeh announced on Saturday that a new Intifada had started, following clashes on Gaza's border earlier that day, in which Israeli forces shot dead seven Palestinians and injured more than 145 others.
President Mahmoud Abbas rejects that the recent wave of unrest that has swept the region has evolved into a long-term uprising.
On Thursday, Abbas said in a speech that “his hand is still reaching for peace,” repeating his administration's stance that the recent wave of violent upheaval that has gripped the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel must be extinguished.
While the PA and Hamas-run Gaza Strip have different stances on the future of the current unrest, both factions seem to agree that the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the status of Jerusalem lies at the center of the current conflict.
“Gaza will not draw back or give up its role in protecting Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Haniyeh said.
Israeli forces killed a total of 11 Palestinians in the Strip since the beginning of this month, including the seven Gazans killed on Saturday, two teenagers on Oct. 10,and a 2-year-old girl and her pregnant mother in an airstrike.
