On Friday, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement “Hamas” demanded a halt to the Israeli escalation in Jerusalem and Palestine to calm the situation and not expand the circle of tension.
A statement issued by the movement said that Haniyeh had received a phone call from the United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process, Tour Wencesland, with the aim of calming the situation, specifically at Al-Aqsa Mosque, east of Jerusalem.
During the call, Haniyeh stressed the need for the United Nations to obligate the Israeli authorities to four main points, the first of which is to allow worshipers and worshipers to access Al-Aqsa Mosque completely freely and not to attack them inside the mosque, and to release detainees who were arrested at dawn today and before.
Haniyeh stressed the need to put a final end to the issue of “slaughtering sacrifices” inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to stop the killing operations in the city of Jenin and its camp and throughout the West Bank, warning that Israel’s continuation of its policies will continue to confront it.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of East Jerusalem are witnessing a state of cautious calm following the violent confrontations that erupted in the early hours of Friday morning, after the Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and suppressed worshipers inside the Al-Qibli Mosque.
The Israeli security forces withdrew from the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque after arresting about 400 Palestinian youths and took them to a number of police stations in the city, and reopened the doors leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque to thousands of Palestinians who arrived from all Palestinian lands and within the Green Line to perform the second Friday prayer of Ramadan.
The spokesman for the Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem, Firas Al-Dibs, told the correspondent of “Sputnik” that “despite the confrontations and attacks on them, and the occupation’s obstruction of 60,000 worshipers, they performed the second Friday prayer of the blessed month of Ramadan in the premises of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”