Hamas calls for new plan to protect Al-Aqsa mosque

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Saturday called for devising an Arab-Palestinian strategy for the protection of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israeli authorities are trying to impose a new fait accompli by allowing Israeli settlers to repeatedly force their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, Hamas warned in a statement.

Israel is trying to exploit the Arab world's preoccupation with its domestic problems to divide up Al-Aqsa Mosque complex and continue with its Judaization, Hamas said.

Hamas reiterated that Al-Aqsa Mosque was at the heart of the conflict between the Arabs and Israel and that the responsibility of defending it fell on the shoulders of Palestinian resistance factions.