Hamas warned that Israel was “playing with fire” on Friday by allowing Jews to visit the Temple Mount and march around the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. Tisha Bev, which marks the day when two temples in Jerusalem were destroyed.
The terrorist movement also spoke out against the demolition and planned expulsion of Palestinians in the Sylvan and Sheikh Jarrah areas of East Jerusalem.
Hamas confirmed it would continue the confrontation against Israel and called on the youth of Jerusalem to mobilize at the gates of the Old City and the entire capital to confront the Israelis starting Saturday.
The terrorist group called on Palestinians from the West Bank and Arab-Israeli to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Eid al-Adha, which begins on Monday night and ends on Friday.
Hamas also called on Gaza residents to “keep their fingers on the trigger” to defend Jerusalem. In May, tensions over the eviction at Sheikh Jarrah, as well as conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinians at Temple Mount, came to a head on Jerusalem Day, when Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem, sparking an 11-day conflict called Operation Guardian. Gone. Walls.
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According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, visits to Temple Mount by religious Jews are monitored by the Waqf Guard and the Israeli Police – and all Jewish prayer, including silent prayer, is prohibited. According to the tourism website Tourist Israel, no sacred Jewish items, such as prayer books or prayer shawls, may be brought to Mt.
Despite the ban on prayer, Jewish visitors have been able to offer some prayers at the site undisturbed by the police since December 2019.
Im Tirzu, along with several other right-wing organizations, is planning a march around the old city walls on Saturday night, when Tisha Bev begins.
Last year, the Joint Headquarters of the Temple Mount Organization issued a pamphlet on Wednesday containing several decisions related to Jewish law for those visiting the Mount on Tisha Bev, including that even That those who are concerned that they may need to drink water should in any case visit the site after visiting.
This year, temperatures are expected to be exceptionally warm at Tisha Bev. Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer, rabbi of Mitzpey Yericho’s West Bank settlement and head of Yeshiva of Jewish Idea, ruled last year that if anyone visiting the site starts to feel too weak, he or she is allowed to drink water. If they can manage to drink small amounts of water, they should only drink 40 ml. every nine minutes.
At Tisha Bev, which begins on Saturday night, Jews mark the day when two temples in Jerusalem were destroyed and observing a 25-hour fast and other mourning practices led to several other calamities, including This included sitting on the floor or sitting down. Chairs, not bathing or wearing leather shoes, and reciting the Book of Lamentations (Megilat Echa), in which the prophet Jeremiah laments the destruction of Jerusalem and subsequent exile.