Militants fired rockets from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip into Israel this week in what appeared to be a response to two Israeli police raids at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site.
in 2017. And members of an emboldened Israeli religious nationalist movement have increasingly ventured onto the plaza, often joined and encouraged by Ben Gvir.to Israel in April 2021 about large groups of Jewish visitors violating the status quo. The following month, Ben Gvir’s support for settlers in an East Jerusalem neighborhood helped catalyze an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist militant group that rules Gaza.
Rights groups also say Israeli security forces are quick to storm the site and to fire tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.A “very large majority” of religious and more secular Jewish Israelis refrain from going to the Temple Mount, Cohen said. Given how easily inflamed tensions there can become, many feel that Jews should avoid the area so as to not provoke Palestinians and stoke another round of violence.
Ben Gvir has previously supported activists who threatened to slaughter a lamb in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the Jewish Passover holiday — a move that would upend the status quo at the site and which police have warned could spark a regional war.to anyone who attempts to sacrifice a lamb at the site for Passover, which begins Wednesday evening.
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