GAZA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Hamas, ruler of the Gaza Strip, on Monday urged the Palestinians to confront the Israeli measures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
"The barbaric Israeli aggression against Jerusalem and its plan of constructing 1,000 settlement units in the West Bank are real dangers," said Abdulatif al-Qanou'a, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, in a statement emailed to Xinhua.
He called on the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank to join daily protests, marches and demonstrations against Israel to defend Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Qanou'a also called on the Palestinian militant groups to escalate "armed attacks" against Israel in the West Bank "to prevent it from implementing its plan of annexing parts of the West Bank."
On Monday morning, militants of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, test-fired eight long-range rockets into the sea of Gaza, said the Hamas-run ministry of interior.
Observers said firing testing rockets from Gaza into the sea "is a warning message to Israel that Hamas owns a big arsenal of weapons."
Also on Monday morning, masked youths fired dozens of incendiary balloons carrying explosives from Gaza into southern Israel, causing massive fires in the Israeli agricultural fields.
On Sunday night, Israeli warplanes destroyed two posts belonging to Hamas militants in the northern Gaza Strip in response to burning balloon attacks from the Palestinian enclave. Enditem
