“The Sword of Jerusalem battle turned the table over the head of the occupation as it thought that it could impose new faits accomplis in Jerusalem and attack our people there through suppressing and displacing them without the Palestinian people lifting a finger,” Hamas said in a press release.

Hamas called on the Palestinian masses across the occupied territories to continue their uprising for Jerusalem and respond to Israel’s ongoing aggression against their people in the holy city and the Aqsa Mosque, hailing the sacrifices they make every day to defend the holy city.

The Movement also urged the Arab and Islamic worlds to play their role in defending the identity of al-Quds and the Aqsa Mosque and standing decisively against the normalization of ties with Israel, which “emboldened it to defile the Aqsa Mosque and kill Gaza children.