Israeli forces have announced heavier deployments at the border area with Gaza following the announcement of a Hamas-prompted "day of rage" planned to take place on Friday,an Israeli army spokesperson said.

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip support the Intifada (uprising) in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) against Israel.

Hamas warned yesterday that the Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque would have “harsh consequences,” Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported.

Gaza-based Palestinian resistance group Hamas has criticized the United States for putting three of its senior members on Washington’s terror list.

The leader of the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for national unity among Palestinian factions but urged postponement of national leaders' first congress in two decades pending a compromise.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has vowed to take revenge for the recent death of a woman, who succumbed to the severe burn injuries she sustained during an arson attack on her home by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Authority and Israeli intelligence services are behind messages in which Daesh members make threats against Hamas and accuse it of blasphemy, a senior Hamas leader has said.

The head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, has called for “real partnership [between Palestinian factions] in political, military and security” decisions ahead of several meetings of the Palestinian National Council to choose new members of the PLO executive committee, Alkhaleejonline.net reported on Monday.