GAZA, (PIC)-- The Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, said on Friday that Jerusalem and the right of return are core issues of the Palestinian cause and cannot be relinquished.
Secretary General of the Brigades, Abu Qasem, said, in a statement on Friday, that the statements made daily by Zionist leaders about Jerusalem and the Israeli occupation measures in the holy city are met with a suspicious Arab and Islamic official silence as if Jerusalem and the Aqsa mean nothing to the Muslims.
He added that such silence encouraged Zionist leaders to go further in their statements and talk about abolishing the right of return of Palestinian refugees and even to reject the two-state solution as stipulated in the so called "peace accords" leaving Palestinians alone in the face of Zionist atrocities.
He said that Zionist statements regarding Jerusalem and the right of return are rejected, stressing that these issues are used as means of putting pressure on Arab and Muslim states, adding that the Palestinian resistance will not give up the Palestinians' right to self determination, the return of refugees and the restoration of Palestinian towns and villages to their rightful owners.
Until now, the besieged Gaza Strip has stayed free of the novel coronavirus spreading across the world. As the Gaza Strip has been under a stringent Israeli-led blockade for nearly 13 years, the spread of the coronavirus - officially known as COVID-19 - has become the topic of discussion for many Palestinians, with some joking that the blockade was preventing them from being exposed.But as authorities in the coastal Palestinian enclave gear up to contain any potential outbreak, serious questions have arisen about the risks and implications of such a scenario. But given its already difficult humanitarian situation and high population density, an outbreak in the Gaza Strip could prove to be catastrophic, health officials have warned. "If the virus enters Gaza and spreads, it will get out of hand," Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Majdi Thuhair told Middle East Eye, as he explained that a severe shortage of resources and personnel would make it near impossible
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