*Day of rage

                             Al Manar News Service

Israel has opened the so-called “Hurva” (Ruin) synagogue in occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds) on Monday, in a move backed by the United States and ignited angry protests by Palestinians in the holy city and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Hamas announced Tuesday a “day of rage” a day following the opening of the synagogue a few hundred meters from the al-Aqsa Mosque in.

A joint Palestinian factions’ statement read by Hamas’ Politburo Chief Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Monday, described the synagogue opening as “a declaration of war” because of its direct threat to the holy site. “It is part of a project to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque” and replace it with Israel’s so-called “Solomon’s Temple.”

Mashaal slammed Tel Aviv’s “falsification of history and Jerusalem’s religious and historic monuments”.“Israel is playing with fire and touching off the first spark to make the region explode.”

To read the entire article and see the photos:

Day of rage in Jerusalem: In pictures - (March 16, 2010)

Al-Manar TV: Hamas: "Hurva" Synagogue a declaration of war; Israel playing with fire- (March 16, 2010)