The Hamas website has published an appeal to Arabs to march on Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem "to cleanse them from the Zionist desecration." It also appealed to the Arab world to demand an end to Israeli excavations near the Temple Mount.
Hamas denounced the Palestinian Authority (PA) for continuing to hold talks with Israel, calling them "an umbrella used to waive the Palestinian people's rights...under which the last link in the conspiracy chain is now being woven against the Islamic holy shrines in Jerusalem."