The Palestinian resistance factions condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ assault on Christians and its imposition of restrictions on those celebrating “Noor Saturday” in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, its square and its surroundings, and called for unity.
The “Hamas” movement rejected, through a member of its political bureau, Al-Rishq attributed the occupation’s violations once morest the “Church of the Holy Sepulcher” and Christian worshipers, as it called on the international community to stop the policy of double standards in dealing with the Palestinian issue.
In his statement, Al-Rishq referred to the racist practices of the occupation once morest Palestinian Christians during their celebrations, saying that “the occupation limited the number of participants, spread barriers to the worshipers’ access to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and obligated them to put a red badge on their arms.”
For his part, the spokesman for the “Islamic Jihad” movement in the West Bank, Tariq Ezz El-Din, confirmed that the occupation forces continue their violations once morest the Palestinian, Islamic and Christian sanctities in the occupied city of Jerusalem, and harassing Palestinian Christians and limiting their freedom of movement and participation by erecting barriers and closing doors leading to To the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to celebrate Holy Saturday.
He added: “We in the Islamic Jihad Movement, as we denounce this blatant aggression once morest the freedom of worship and the practice of religious rites, affirm that the enemy, with its terrorist policy, targets all our people, with all its sects and components, and violates Islamic and Christian sanctities.”
Ezz El-Din called for “the unity of our people to confront this continuous aggression, and to defend the right of our people to worship and exercise their freedom in sacred places, and that these occupation practices will not affect the steadfastness and determination of our people and their adherence to and defense of their land, which will remain lofty facing all challenges until the liberation of the land and the purification of holy sites.” .
For its part, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirmed that the occupation’s attack on the clergy and its decision to place restrictions on those who celebrate “Night Saturday” in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, its square and its surroundings, or the entrances leading to it come within the framework of “the systematic targeting of the holy places in the city of Jerusalem.”
The Front considered that these restrictions are “one of the chapters of the plans to Judaize the city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites,” noting that “the occupation, over the course of its occupation, aggression and targeting of the city of Jerusalem, did not differentiate between a Palestinian Christian or Muslim or Christian or Islamic holy sites. Rather, the targeting was always for the general public.” Palestinian”.
She stressed that “the continuation of the pressing national and popular movement, especially the permanent gathering and sit-in in the courtyards and squares of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and other holy sites is enough to curb Zionist arrogance regarding freedom of worship.”
The Front concluded its statement by affirming, “The Palestinian people’s right to practice their religious rites freely, a right that requires sacrifices and the exercise of all forms of legitimate resistance in order to extract it from the occupation.”
Today, Saturday, the Zionist occupation authorities imposed strict security measures on Christians wishing to participate in the celebrations of the “Saturday of Light” in the Church of the Resurrection in the occupied city of Jerusalem, which led to a reduction in the number of participants in the annual religious celebration of the Greek Orthodox sect.
These occupation restrictions come amid strict measures imposed on Palestinians entering the city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in light of programmed and continuous attacks once morest the mosque, the stationed and those inside it, in an attempt to eliminate everything that is Palestinian in the city, and strike its national and religious identity.
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