Hours before his arrest .. Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib to Al-Jazeera Net: What is happening in historical Palestine establishes to rewrite the region’s history again.

The struggle events and protests accelerate in the towns of the Palestinian interior, which have turned into a battlefield with the Israeli police, who have persisted in suppressing Arab citizens who protested against the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, while facing the attacks of settler militias that operate in coastal cities calling for the killing of Arabs.

"What is happening in the Palestinian towns of the interior of the settler sectors and unprecedented repression of the police and security forces of the 48 Palestinians, the cause and the basis of the Israeli policy and its aggression towards Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa," this is what Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, Vice President of the "Israeli Banned" Islamic Movement, told Al-Jazeera Net, hours before his arrest From his home in the town of Kafr Kanna, on Friday evening.

Al-Khatib said in a telephone conversation with Al-Jazeera Net, "Israel has gone far by targeting it and its aggression against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and disregarding the feelings of Arabs and Muslims, which led to a state of cohesion between the components of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian interior, where the spontaneous popular struggle of this generation, which has a religious affection, cannot be controlled." And patriotism exceeded all expectations. "

Al-Khatib believes that banning the Islamic movement in 2015 and prosecuting its leadership and imprisoning its president, Sheikh Raed Salah, who is serving a 17-month prison sentence, after he was convicted of inciting the popular movement at the Lions Gate that failed the electronic gates at the gates of Al-Aqsa. Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, but the culture of Rabat is prevalent

Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib and Sheikh Raed Salah among the Palestinian masses in the occupied territories in the year 48 (Al-Jazeera)

Solidarity and support

In a spontaneous popular movement that bypassed all leaders and parties, the people of the Palestinian interior took to the streets in protests against the policies and approaches of the Israeli establishment and struggle activities to confront settler gangs in an existential battle that went beyond the issues of rights and services.

The Palestinian homeland is witnessing for the second week in a row a wide wave of protests and struggle activities that culminate in the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, which falls on Saturday, May 15th, and the core of these protests remains Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.

Tarawih prayers at Al-Aqsa for young men from the Palestinian interior (Al-Jazeera)

Al-Khatib explains that the Islamic movement launched the pioneering project in 1996 and the Al-Aqsa cry is in danger, and this was followed by restoration and maintenance projects for the old Al-Aqsa and Al-Marwani prayer hall in cooperation with the endowments, and the pioneering project Al-Bayariq March in 2001, and it became a culture for 48 Palestinians in Al-Nafir in Jerusalem and Rabat in Al-Aqsa throughout the year, despite Ban the Islamic movement in Israel.

The vice president of the "Israeli banned" Islamic movement affirms that the presence and association of the 48 Palestinians with Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the holy sites represent moral and material support for Jerusalem and its sanctities, and the attacks that took place against the people of Sheikh Jarrah and Heba Bab al-Amud, pushed the people of the Palestinian interior to follow the compass of struggle and ribat towards Jerusalem and the support of Al-Aqsa and solidarity. And the defense of the people of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

Conflict and cohesion

Al-Khatib believes that this cohesion and the daily presence of tens of thousands of young men and families from 48 Palestinians in Jerusalem, despite the suppression of the occupation forces and the attacks of the settlers, constituted a moral setback for the Israeli establishment entitled "People of the Inside", who protested and rose up and were the main essence of the protests and struggle activities in Jerusalem and Sheikh Jarrah, which are the marches. And the vigils that extended in all Palestinian towns inside.

Al-Khatib says, "There is no doubt that Israel, which pushed settler gangs to attack Arabs and attack Palestinian towns inside, is in a state of anger and tension over the struggle role of the 48 Palestinians, which continued and escalated under the shadow of the state of emergency, due to the military aggression on the Gaza Strip, and perhaps the most prominent event was in Lod, when Musa Hassouna was killed by settlers who carried out attacks on Arabs, escorted by the Israeli police.

Hassouna's martyrdom reflected the state of turmoil and tension among the 48 Palestinians who spontaneously emerged in a battle, Sheikh Al-Khatib says, "centered around the struggle of existence and narratives in historical Palestine, where the people of the interior went out to the streets spontaneously without appeal, without invitations and without the participation of party leaders, actions, frameworks, the High Follow-up Committee and the Qatari Committee of Presidents." It is a situation we have not seen before. "

Setback and victory

Al-Khatib reviews the setbacks of the Israeli establishment on the thresholds of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, pointing out that in 2017 the popular struggle and the sit-in opposite the walls of Jerusalem thwarted the scheme of the electronic gates, and the Israeli government was forced to remove the electronic gates from the Lions Square, and the year 2019 was also a victory for the opening of the Gate of Mercy prayer hall, which was closed from Before the occupation authorities for 16 years, the victory scene was repeated in 2021 in the gift of Bab al-Amud, and the fortification of the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

Al-Khatib, who is the head of the Freedoms Committee in the Higher Follow-up Committee for Palestinian Affairs at home, believes that the setbacks of the Israeli establishment in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah necessitate rearranging the Palestinian papers and tools for the struggle, as the occupation thought that it had succeeded in differentiating between the sons of a single people, but the answer came from the Palestinian youth. In the escalating events since the month of Ramadan, which suggests a major role that is coming in the coming stage, laying the foundation for rewriting the history of the region again.

The scenes show that the majority of the Palestinian youth participating in the protests were 48 Palestinians at this stage, most of them were not born in the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa gift in 2000, which was launched inside the Palestinian who paid the blood tax with the death of 13 young men shot by the Israeli police, or they were children who did not participate in it. Today, you find them the popular base of the movements in the streets, and the majority of them are non-partisan and non-political.

On this, al-Khatib says, “If the year 1948 witnessed the loss of Palestine and was called the generation of the Nakba, and after the loss of the war in 1967 it was called the generation of setbacks, then the events of 2021 confirm that this is the generation of the brave, a generation that is not afraid of police brutality, a defenseless generation facing an army with a military arsenal I do not expect it to prevail over the army of Israel, but it is a generation that is steadfast in its stances that resists and does not compromise, as this generation rules history and changes the equation, because solid and courageous will can win at some stage over the armies. "