Earlier on Friday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society announced that over 150 Palestinians had been hospitalised after clashes with the Israeli police at Al-Aqsa. The police raided the mosque, which is the third holiest site in Islam, and used rubber bullets, noise bombs and tear gas to control the crowd.
"He [Amirabdollahian] referred to the Zionist regime's action in attacking the worshipers and desecrating Al-Aqsa Mosque as the negative effects of normalizing relations by a few Arab-Islamic countries with the fake Israeli regime," the ministry said in a statement on the minister's phone conversation with the head of Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh.
Amirabdollahian stated that Hamas finds itself at its strongest while Israel is at its weakest, adding that "the Islamic Republic of Iran supports formation of an integrated Palestinian government in Palestine with Holy Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital."
The Sunni militant organisation of Hamas controls Palestine's Gaza Strip and is in a protracted conflict with Israel. It has been declared a terrorist organisation in Israel, the United States, Canada, Japan, the European Union and Australia.