Hamas: Israel ‘playing with fire’ by banning call to prayer

Israel is “playing with fire” by banning the Muslim call to prayer in Jerusalem, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal warned yesterday.

Meshaal noted that the Israeli project faced a “massive reaction” across the Arab and Islamic world.

He noted that Israel withdrew the bill to ban the call to prayer after seeing this reaction, as well as fearing it would affect Jewish religious rituals in the city.

“But the Palestinian anger sent a message and drew a redline ahead of the Israeli actions,” he said, stressing that there would be “no stability in the region without the end of the occupation and the Palestinians gaining their full rights.”

Commenting on the victory of Donald Trump in the American elections, Meshaal said: “We acknowledge that the regional and international changes affect the Palestinian issue as well as those of the region, but people’s resistance which make history.”

“We make changes by imposing our will.”

Meshaal called on Trump to change his foreign policy and to “learn a lesson” from the “failures” of the previous American administrations.