The occupation's attacks on Al-Aqsa came to light in November 

In the wake of calls to intensify the aggression against Al-Aqsa on the Judaizing “Eid of Lights” (18-26/12/2022), the month of November, as “temple groups” began mobilizing to storm Al-Aqsa on this occasion, which the settlers associate with the alleged temple.

Last month witnessed the fifth Knesset elections in three years, as a result of which two Knesset members participated in storming Al-Aqsa, in light of efforts to form a government of which the escalation of aggression against the mosque is one of its most prominent trends, in light of Knesset members’ statements about “changing the situation.” Al-Qaim” and “The right of the Jews to pray at Al-Aqsa.”

Knesset members participate in storming Al-Aqsa... and raising the occupation flag in the mosque

4,131 settlers participated in storming Al-Aqsa last November, and the settlers performed their rituals and prayers in the mosque, especially in the eastern region of it, and at its gates, in addition to raising the flag of the occupying state in the mosque on 11/6/2022.

Members of the Knesset, Sharan Haskel from the “Official Camp” party, and Yitzhak Wasserlauf from the “Jewish Power” party led by Itamar Ben Gvir, participated in the raids. Wasserlauf declared, “The Temple Mount is the holiest place for the Jewish people, and we will protect it.”

In a televised statement, Amichai Ben Eliyahu, a member of the Knesset from the Jewish Power party, said: “We will return to the days when the Temple Mount was in our hands, and we say clearly that there must be Jewish prayers on the mountain.” Ben Eliyahu is a close friend of Itamar Ben Gvir, who pledged to escalate the aggression against Al-Aqsa if he took over the Ministry of Internal Security.

On 11/24/2022, settlers tried to bring a picture of the alleged temple into Al-Aqsa, but the mosque guards thwarted the attempt.

The occupation continues to expand the Bab al-Maghariba Bridge and disrupts the work of the Endowments in Al-Aqsa

The occupation crews continued the expansion and strengthening work of the Bab al-Maghariba Bridge, through which settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque. These works come within a plan to facilitate the storming of Al-Aqsa and increase the number of participants in the raids.

In the context of the ongoing attack on the work of the Endowments, on November 30, 2022, the occupation security forces prevented the crews of the Reconstruction Committee of the Islamic Endowments Department from completing the work of installing the windows of the Al-Qibli prayer hall, which the occupation forces destroyed during their recent aggression against the stationed people secluded in the prayer hall.

Ben Gvir pledges to change the status of settlers’ prayers in Al-Aqsa

The leader of the “Jewish Power” party, who is in charge of the position of Ministry of Internal Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, pledged to work to change the current situation regarding Jewish settlers praying in Al-Aqsa, in addition to legislating settlement outposts, and changing the instructions to “open fire” on the Palestinians.

In response to the question of the broadcaster of the Hebrew channel “Kan” about whether he would allow settlers to pray in Al-Aqsa publicly, he said that, as Minister of Internal Security, he would do everything to prevent what he said were “racist policies” in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Regarding the “National Guard Forces” that he will form, Ben Gvir said: “We want a large National Guard, and the decision to form it was issued by the outgoing government. We do not want the events of Guardian of the Walls (Hebat Al Karama/Saif al-Quds) to be repeated.”

On 11/25, the “Likud” party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in charge of forming the government, signed an agreement with the “Jewish Power” party led by Itamar Ben Gvir, according to which the latter would obtain the position of Minister of National Security, which is the Ministry of Internal Security under the new name, with broad powers that Ben Gvir will obtain. Upon his request.

Palestinian positions reject Ben Gvir’s statements and warn of their repercussions

The head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri, confirmed that “the Palestinians will not allow the leader of the extremist “Jewish Power” party, Itamar Ben Gvir, or anyone else, to infringe on the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Sheikh Sabri held the occupation government fully responsible for the threats of the extremist Bin Ghafir regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque, describing his statements as “racist and unacceptable” and unreliable for anything.

Sabri stated, “Bin Ghafir’s threats increase the tension in the general situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the clash with the Muslim worshipers in its courtyards.” Al-Aqsa’s preacher called on the people of Jerusalem to be vigilant and pay attention to repel the provocative attempts of the settlers, and not to allow them to attack the holy sites.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned against changing the “status quo” at Al-Aqsa, and the ministry said that the agreements that Netanyahu signed with Ben Gvir give the latter “broad powers to practice his racist colonial policies and positions against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and his endeavor to bring about widespread, radical changes to the existing historical and legal reality.” The Ministry stated that it “views with extreme seriousness” the results and repercussions of the Al-Aqsa raids, and called on the international community and the United Nations to “show the highest levels of interest, vigilance, and caution against the dangers posed by these raids, including the accompanying performance of Talmudic rituals in the courtyards of the mosque, especially under the rule of Netanyahu Ben Gvir and their followers.” “.

The Foreign Ministry pointed out that these raids “fall within the framework of the occupying state’s attempts to establish a temporal division of the mosque, pending its spatial division, if not its complete demolition and the construction of the alleged temple in its place.”

It also warned of “concepts and visions calling for transforming the nature of the conflict from political to religious” carried by the success of the right and the extreme right in the Knesset elections that were held early last month, and stressed that any changes in the reality of the mosque are “a direct threat to blow up the arena of conflict and the entire region.”

She called for rapid Arab and Islamic action “to coordinate their efforts and agree on an action program to provide the necessary international protection for Jerusalem and its holy sites.”