On Saturday, the "Hamas" movement considered the occupation forces' storming of the Gate of Mercy chapel in Al-Aqsa Mosque and its destruction of its components, as the occupation's insistence on escalating its religious war against the holy sites in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said, in a press statement, that this war means that the battle over the identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque is open and the struggle continues until this battle is resolved to prove the Palestinian, Arab-Islamic identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque.