The Israelis are “inciting rage among the Palestinian people” in order to pave the ground for usurping more Palestinian territories and expelling them from their homeland, says co-founder of the Free Palestine Movement.

“The purpose [of Israeli policies] is to confiscate the Palestinian land [or] property, to expel Palestinians, to marginalize Palestinians” and “to make them disappear,” Paul Larudee told Press TV on Wednesday.

“It’s a matter of deception to think that cooperation with Israel will lead to a better situation,” he noted.

Tensions have been escalating across the occupied Palestinian territories in recent days after the Israeli troops shut down al-Aqsa Mosque in the wake of deadly shootings in the mosque compound.

At least 70 Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli forces in East Jerusalem al-Quds on Tuesday.