Hamas calls for a ‘mobilization’ of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday ‘in support of Gaza’

Hamas today called for a ‘mobilisation’ of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday ‘in support of Gaza’, describing it as a day of ‘heroism and sacrifice’.

Thousands of Hamas targets were wiped out by an Israeli aerial bombardment that relentlessly hit the Gaza Strip after the terrorists launched a surprise attack that has so far killed at least 900 Israelis.

But now the terror leaders have called on those in the Arab and Islamic world to ‘mobilize’ on Friday and show their support for Hamas and the Palestinian people.

They also called on the “revolutionary youth” across the West Bank and those in Jerusalem to clash with “cowardly” Israeli soldiers.

It comes after thousands of Palestinian supporters descended on the Israeli embassy in London, waving flags, chanting and firing flares. Hundreds of others clashed with Israeli supporters at a London tube station as police desperately tried to keep the peace.

Video shows dozens of police officers trying to separate protesters at High Street Kensington tube station in west London as more than 1,000 pro-Palestinian activists gathered on the streets outside.

“This is an appeal to our Palestinian people and the masses of the Arab and Islamic world and people of the free world,” the Hamas leaders said on Telegram. “We announce the general mobilization on Friday to support Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the struggling Gaza.”

They called on those in the free world to mobilize their support for Hamas and Palestinians on Friday, describing it as a day ‘to show our love and support for Palestine and Jerusalem’.

While Israel was able to wipe out thousands of Hamas targets with airstrikes, disturbing clips shared on social media showed the rockets and bombs also obliterating Palestinian residential blocks and killing hundreds of civilians.

Israel also ordered a ‘total siege’ of Gaza, cutting off electricity, fuel and food for the 2.3 million Palestinians who for the most part already lived in dire poverty.

The four-day-old war has already claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gunfights in the streets of its own towns for the first time in decades, and neighborhoods in Gaza lay in ruins.

In response to the brutal aerial bombardment of Gaza, Hamas warned late last night that it would begin executing Israeli civilian prisoners.

“Any target of our people without warning will be executed with the execution of one of the civilian hostages,” Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.

Hamas militants kidnapped up to 150 people, including women and children, from Israeli territory and dragged them back into Gaza amid their relentless slaughter.

“We have decided to put an end to this and from now on we declare that any target of our people in their homes without prior warning will unfortunately be faced with the execution of one of the civilian hostages we are holding,” Abu Obaida , spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, later added in a recording released to Al Jazeera.

Israel and Hamas have had repeated conflicts in recent years, often sparked by tensions over a holy site in Jerusalem.

But this time the context became more explosive.

The surprise weekend attack by Hamas left a death toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria, prompting calls for Israel to crush Hamas at any cost, rather than continuing to force it into Gaza. try bottle

Israel is run by its most hard-right government ever, dominated by ministers who firmly reject Palestinian statehood.

Hamas, for its part, says it is ready for a long struggle to end an Israeli occupation that it says is no longer tolerable. Desperation has grown among Palestinians, many of whom see nothing to lose from unrelenting Israeli control and increasing settler unrest in the West Bank, the blockade of Gaza and what they see as world apathy.

Thousands of Israelis were evacuated from more than a dozen towns near Gaza on Monday, and tanks and drones were deployed to protect breaches in the Gaza border fence from new incursions.

In the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands fled their homes as airstrikes leveled buildings.

The moves, along with Israel’s formal declaration of war on Sunday, signaled that Israel is increasingly moving on the offensive against Hamas and threatens greater destruction in the densely populated, impoverished region where 2.3 million people live in squalid conditions on top of each other.

Israel said it had called up 300,000 army reservists for its ‘Swords of Iron’ campaign, while the IDF said it had targeted hundreds of Hamas in Gaza’s City Rimal neighborhood, which is home to Hamas’ ministries and administrative buildings. hit overnight.

IDF spokesman Richard Hecht said residents of Gaza were being told to evacuate “over social media” before strikes, but did not give details.

Also on Monday, Israel found more bodies from Hamas’ astonishing weekend attack in southern Israeli towns.

Rescuers found 100 bodies in the small farming community of Be’eri – about 10 percent of its population – after a long hostage standoff with gunmen.

More than 270 bodies, mostly young people, were strewn across the grounds of a music festival in a Negev desert kibbutz after Hamas attackers used paragliders to cross the border and shoot indiscriminately into the crowd.

The Israeli army said more than 900 people had already been killed in Israel.

In Gaza and the West Bank, 704 people died, according to the authorities there; Israel says hundreds of Hamas fighters are among them. Thousands were wounded on both sides.