Quds operations, natural response

Deputy Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniya says a series of anti-Israeli operations in the al-Aqsa mosque has come as a natural response to the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian nation.

Haniya made the remarks in a congregational prayers ceremony on Friday, according to al-Aqsa TV.

The senior Palestinian authority said the anti-Israeli operations took place within the framework of the Palestinian right to defend the occupied al-Quds as the capital of a future Palestinian state as well as the duty to protest the holy sanctities inside the city, including the al-Aqsa mosque.