Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised on the evening of Thursday April 6 a military response, a few hours after the firing of more than thirty rockets from Lebanon, attributed by Israel to Palestinian activists.
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We will strike our enemies and they will pay the price for each attack
,” Benyamin Netanyahu declared at the opening of a meeting of the restricted security cabinet in a short video sequence released by his office.
Thirty rockets were fired Thursday from Lebanon towards Israel, injuring one person and causing material damage, the day after the violent irruption of the Israeli police in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam, in order to dislodge Palestinians who had barricaded themselves there with stones and batteries of fireworks which were used against the police during their assault.
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We have no intention of changing the status quo on the Temple Mount
,” Binyamin Netanyahu said, using the term Jews use for the compound of the Mosques, located in the eastern sector of the Holy City, occupied and annexed by Israel.
The esplanade, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is built on the ruins of the Second Jewish Temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
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We call for an easing of the situation and we will act firmly against the extremists who resort to violence in this place
”, the holiest place in Judaism, added Benyamin Netanyahu.
For his part, the head of Hamas assured that the Palestinians will not remain "
arms crossed
" in the face of Israel.
Ismaïl Haniyeh, who arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday, met in Beirut on Thursday with the heads of other Palestinian organizations.
The Hamas leader called on “
all Palestinian organizations to unify their ranks and intensify their resistance against the Zionist occupation
”.
