Hamas leader: Palestine resistance groups stand behind Sheikh Jarrah families

Head of Hamas’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian resistance factions firmly support the families of the al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the face of the Israeli regime’s threat to forcefully evict them from their homes.

“I say to our people in Sheikh Jarrah: The resistance with all its factions and the nation are standing behind the steadfast citizens who are defending al-Quds, the al-Aqsa Mosque and our holy sites,” the Palestinian Information Center quoted Haniyeh as saying.

The top Hamas leader hailed the Sheikh Jarrah families for refusing to accept an Israeli court’s offer that would make them tenants of their own homes and for sticking to their land and rights and for showing a high level of responsibility and awareness.

Palestinian families facing the threat of forced eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Tuesday rejected an Israeli court’s so-called conflict resolution proposal that would enable Israeli settlers to eventually confiscate their land in 15 years.

Haniyeh further said the Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood had been lately under a lot of pressure to accept the unjust compromise that would strip them of their own homes’ ownership.

Local sources reported that the Israeli forces on Tuesday quelled a group of activists who rallied in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to express their solidarity with its residents and forced the activists to leave the area.

In a statement on Tuesday, Haron Nasser al-Din, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, said the issue of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood cannot be compromised, warning Israel that it will pay the price for its “crimes” in the occupied city of al-Quds.

The official stressed the Hamas movement’s rejection of “any form of compromise on the homes threatened with seizure in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood,” noting that the Israeli judiciary is part of the Israeli occupying regime’s security system that facilitates the seizure of the lands and homes of al-Quds by the illegal Zionist settlers.

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