In an interview with Tasnim reporter in the West Bank, Hamas leader Fayez Abu Warda said although the current Intifada is not receiving enough support from the Palestinian groups like the first and second uprisings, it will gather pace in future.
The calm situation at present is just a hiatus, after which more frequent and vigorous attacks against Israeli targets will go on, he noted.
Intifada will definitely enter a harsher stage if the Zionist enemy keeps taking acts of aggression, continues misconduct against the Palestinian prisoners and families, sticks to the policy of land occupation, enforces a ban on the use of speakers for Muslim call to prayers, and refuses to hand over the bodies of Hamas members, Warda warned.
The situation may appear to be normal now, but it is the calm before the storm for the Palestinian nation and youth, he noted.
According to reports, Israeli forces arrested 9,920 Palestinians since the Jerusalem (Al-Quds) Intifada until the end of 2016. There have been 2,884 children aged 11-18 among the detainees.
According to Head of Studies and Documentation Unit at the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees Abdul Nasser Farwaneh, the arrests took place in all Palestinian governorates, but the majority were in the West Bank, where 6,297 Palestinian were arrested.
Hundreds of Palestinians, including children and women, have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since the outset of the 3rd Intifada, a term used for an increase in the anti-Israeli moves in Jerusalem in 2014, especially from July of that year.