
️BREAKING: Press Statement Issued by Hamas:
On the 31st anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Mosque massacre: the massacres of the occupation will not grant it legitimacy or sovereignty over an inch of our land, nor will they succeed in breaking our people’s will to stand firm and resist in defense of their land and sacred sites.
This marks the 31st anniversary of the horrifying massacre at the Ibrahimi Mosque, carried out on this day in 1994 by the extremist Zionist criminal Baruch Goldstein, with the participation of occupation soldiers and Border Guard police, during which 29 martyrs were elevated and dozens of children and elders were injured.
This anniversary comes amid the occupation’s escalation of its crimes throughout the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, and its continued implementation of its aggressive schemes of annexation, displacement, invasion, and desecration of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, confirming its systematic criminal policy against our land, our people, and our sacred sites, in blatant violation of all international norms and treaties, and with blatant disregard for all international community resolutions rejecting occupation and aggression.
We, on the 31st anniversary of this horrific massacre, pray for the souls of our righteous martyrs who ascended in our people’s march toward freedom, independence, and the defense of the land and sacred sites. We ask Almighty God for the speedy recovery of the wounded, the imminent freedom of our heroic prisoners, and we salute the great masses of our steadfast people on their land, holding on to their rights in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied interior, and in refugee and diaspora camps.
We affirm the following:
First:
The Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in the city of Hebron is a systematic and recurring fascist model against our Palestinian people, the details of which the world witnessed in the aggression against the Gaza Strip by the criminal Netanyahu, his extremist government, and his Zionist army. These constitute a real danger not only to our land and our people, but also to the security and stability of the region and the world, amid international silence and failure to criminalize and halt their violations.
Second:
The occupation’s Judaization and settlement plans throughout the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, through attempts at seizing, annexing, desecrating, erasing identity, and preventing worshippers from performing their prayers by force of arms and extremist settler thuggery, will not succeed in intimidating our people or falsifying historical truths, nor will the occupation be granted legitimacy or sovereignty over an inch of our land. It will fail in breaking our people’s will to resist in defense of their land and sacred sites.
Third:
The memory of our people is alive; it will neither forget nor forgive these crimes and massacres committed by the enemy against its rights, not least the crimes of genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip over more than fifteen months, and its continuous crimes in the West Bank and Jerusalem. These are well-documented and established crimes that will not be time-barred.
Fourth:
We reiterate our demand to the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and all human rights organizations in the world to prosecute the occupation’s leaders for their heinous crimes against our land, our people, and our sacred sites, and to work to prevent them from evading trial and punishment, and to reject the American pressures that support and partner with the occupation in its crimes and massacres.
Fifth:
We call on the masses of our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied interior, and in refugee and diaspora camps to continue standing firm, steadfast, and resisting, to strengthen the bonds of national cohesion and solidarity, and to stand as one united structure; for you are the rock under which all the enemy’s plans and its supporters in displacement and the liquidation of our national cause will crumble.
We affirm that we stand with you in one trench until we seize our rights, achieve our aspirations, repel our enemy, and establish our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Mike