By Nabil Al Mulhem
Chief Correspondent-Damascus
A Damascus-based leader of the Islamic Resistant Group, Hamas, has said that his group “will go on with Jihad [against Israel],” adding that the next few days “will witness an escalation that would satisfy the Muslims’ thirst for revenge.”
The leader did not say how Hams would react, but in other statements to the media, Hamas leaders vowed military action against the Israeli soldiers “wherever they are.”
In an interview with Albawaba.com in Damascus Sunday, Mustafa Liddawi said that “ what took place in Al Aqsa holy shrine is not unprecedented, and won’t be the last.” The Islamic leader referred to the massacre at the holy site in 1995, and the violence which erupted in 1996 dubbed “the Tunnel Intifada” when tens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire.
Liddawi added that “we are facing an arrogant enemy that is expected to commit more bloodbaths.”
“We have to realize that the Zionist enemy cannot understand but the language of force and resistance.”
The Islamist charged that the PNA has since its emergence restrained Palestinian factions who advocated armed resistance.
“They [PNA] should understand that the Israeli governments would not concede Jerusalem… and we in Hamas call on the authority to resort to the people’s choice: no compromise over our holy sites.
The four days of bloody events in the West Bank and Gaza have claimed the lives of more than 30 Palestinians, in addition to over 700 who have been injured up to Sunday evening.
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