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Hamas will put up total resistance if there is a ban on worship at the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan. Photo/Reuters
GAZA – Hamas has again warned Israel about its plans to limit access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan. This threat is the umpteenth time because the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the center of the Palestinian struggle.
“Let our enemies know that souls are boiling… (our) anger will soon occur… and explosions will occur in response to restrictions on the entry of Muslims to the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan,” wrote Hamas on its Telegram page, reported by The Jerusalem Post.
“We call on the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, Jerusalem and the West Bank, to step up confrontation against the occupation everywhere,” the Palestinian group wrote in an earlier post.
Previously, the refugee crisis in Gaza was very worrying. In the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Abu Gibril was so desperate for food to feed his family that he slaughtered two of his horses.
“We have no other choice but to slaughter horses to feed the children. Hunger is killing us,” the 60-year-old told AFP news agency.
Food was running out, and aid agencies were unable to get into the area due to bombings and attacks on several trucks trying to pass through. Residents began eating rotting corn scraps, livestock feed unfit for human consumption and even leaves to try to stave off the growing hunger.
The WFP said its teams were reporting “unprecedented levels of desperation” while the UN warned that 2.2 million people were on the brink of famine.
“We adults can still survive, but these four and five year old children, what mistake did they make to go to bed hungry and wake up hungry?” said Jibril.
(ahm)