GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has called on all Palestinians to stage a massive rally at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent an upcoming provocative parade by far-right Zionist settlers in al-Quds.
Hamas spokesman Mohamed Hamada said on Sunday, “Let’s make next Tuesday a day of rallying and marching towards the al-Aqsa Mosque and a day of anger and defiance against the Israeli occupation.”
The so-called March of the Flags was originally planned to be held on May 10, but Zionist extremist groups scrapped the controversial parade after Hamas warned of the consequences and the regime refused to authorize it.
Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk also warned on Sunday that “striking all of Israel’s cities” is still an option for the resistance movement in response to the Zionist regime’s actions in al-Quds and other locations, the Kan public broadcaster reported.
The warning from Marzouk also came just ahead of the contentious march.
Marzouk cautioned that if “the enemy” carries out “its usual activities” in al-Quds and other places, “our decision is already made that it is possible the war will return,” according to the report.
The organizers of the march say they reached an agreement with the occupying regime’s police on Friday to let the show roll on Tuesday. According to their statement, the march would begin at HaNevi’im St. and head toward Damascus Gate, where settlers would hold a flag-waving procession.
On June 5, Khalil Hayya, a senior Hamas figure, warned of “another round of confrontation” if the regime did not cut the trend of violations.
“We clearly say to the mediators and the international community that time has come to restrain the occupying regime, otherwise the thunderbolts and the responses of the resistance will remain strong. We are not interested in war, but we want freedom, independence, and stability in our land,” the Hamas official warned.
In May, hundreds of Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in the Zionist regime’s bombardment of the blockaded Gaza Strip. A ceasefire came against the backdrop of a campaign by the Gaza-based resistance movements of firing over 4,000 rockets into the occupied territories, some reaching as far as Tel Aviv and even Haifa and Nazareth to the north, in the face of the Israeli war.