Hamas calls for new intifada

September 27, 2009

GAZA, (PIC)-- One of the Hamas leaders in northern Gaza has urged all Palestinians in occupied Palestine to wage a new intifada (uprising) against the Israeli occupation following its settlers' desecration of the holy Aqsa Mosque.

Mohammed Abu Asker, in a press release on Sunday, said that Hamas would organize massive marches in all areas of the Gaza Strip in support of the Aqsa.

He urged the Arabs and Muslims to defend the holy site and to act before they wake up one day to find the Aqsa Mosque in ruins.

Abu Asker finally asked the Palestinian factions to unite in face of the Israeli "ferocious offensive".

Meanwhile, the league of Palestine scholars also issued a statement on Sunday warning of the next more serious step mainly demolishing the Aqsa itself to build the alleged temple in its place.

It recalled that the Aqsa intifada, which erupted in this same month in 2000, was in retaliation to the former "criminal" Israeli premier Ariel Sharon's storming of the Aqsa Mosque's plazas.

The league added that the Palestinian people were ready for another intifada in defense of its sacred places, rights and constants and in rejection of humiliating dictates marketed by the West under the guise of bright slogans such as the peace process.