Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh delivered a televised speech Wednesday urging Palestinians to flood the mosque in the holy city after Israel announced last week that it will set limits to how many could congregate to celebrate Ramadan.

“This is a call on our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank to march to Al-Aqsa since the first day of Ramadan,” Haniyeh said.

The declaration will likely set the stage for an Israel-Palestinian clash in Jerusalem come March 10, which would complicate a temporary truce deal being brokered by the US, Qatar, and Egypt.

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Source: https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/world-news/hamas-calls-on-palestinians-to-march-at-al-aqsa-mosque-on-ramadan/

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The confrontations, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday, triggered a cross-border exchange of fire in Gaza and stoked fears of further violence.

In the second instance, late at night, police entered the compound and tried to evacuate worshippers, using stun grenades and firing rubber bullets, said staff of the Waqf, the Jordanian-appointed Islamic organisation managing the complex.

Worshippers threw objects at police, witnesses said. The Palestinian Red Crescent said six people were injured.

In a statement, police said dozens of youngsters brought rocks and firecrackers into the mosque and had tried to barricade themselves inside. The Waqf, however, said police entered the mosque before prayers were over.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/cross-border-fire-gaza-after-israeli-police-raid-al-aqsa-mosque-2023-04-05/

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The armed forces of Iran will target “the heart” of Israel if the Jewish State makes the “slightest move” against it, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi warned Jerusalem in a televised address Monday.

“If you make the slightest move against our nation … our armed forces’ destination will be the heart of the Zionist regime,” Raisi warned.

He spoke as talks stalled in Vienna amid U.S. President Biden’s attempt to resurrect former President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. While Obama and Biden stated that their deals aim to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, critics like former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ron Dermer have claimed that the Biden deal would put Iran on a glide path to nuclear weapons. Reporting surfaced last month that the U.S. may consider removing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from its list of designated terrorist groups in exchange for regional peace.

IRAN ACCUSES ISRAEL OF ‘ZIONIST’ AGGRESSION, PROMISES NEW SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIANS AFTER CLASH AT HOLY SITE

Israel has opposed such a deal, and Israeli officials have said that they will unilaterally do what is necessary to protect their country.

Following a clash between Palestinians and Israelis at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque Friday, Iran accused Israel of “zionist” aggression. More than 150 Palestinians were injured after thousands gathered to pray at the holy site during the month of Ramadan.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) called the clash a “desecration of the holy values ​​of Muslims” and alleged it was “carried out by the Zionist regime’s military and security forces by deploying military equipment and brutally attacking defenseless Palestinian worshipers,” according to a translated statement by the Tasnim News Agency, a private Iranian news outlet.

The IRGC also promised a “new wave” of support for Palestinians rising up against Israel. It accused the Israeli state of “aggressive actions and new crimes.”

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Revelations about the Shanghai lock down are just unbelievable.  People face arrest if they venture out for any reason.  Their screams from windows and balconies sound like nothing you’ve ever heard.  Twenty five million people are not allowed out of their dwellings.  The streets are empty.  The COVID must be really bad!  It never got quite that bad in California, but another wave is in the wings.  The Mid Term variant.  Some cities are already demanding masks be worn at all indoor facilities, or you can’t come in.  It’s just great for business.

The Chinese don’t seem to care if their citizens are miserable, or starving.  Judging from the nightmarish soundtrack, they’re not happy.  Nobody within earshot is happy.  At least we can hit the mute button, change the channel or turn the noise off.

The brutality being visited upon people’s pets, should they test positive, is abhorrent to Western sensibilities. But they’ve opted for zero COVID, regardless.  We’re not going to say what they’re doing to people’s pets after they test positive here.  The media, the administration and the obnoxious Dr. won’t say a cross word, or even anything that could be construed as criticism of the regime.  There’s an obvious relationship to protect, now matter what they do.  It’s starting to look like they have Carte Blanche.  Where’s Jimmy Carter and his human rights crusade?  The left has changed. A lot.

Fauci is all over the place, again, warning and explaining as if we’re interested.  He doesn’t show up anywhere that might ask him about the communications we’ve been shown.  But he reserves the right to revisit the darkest mandates of the pandemic. Oh yeah, they just might be necessary. You almost hope he tries some draconian nonsense.  Then the occupant would have to read it off a teleprompter, embarrassing everybody but himself.

Some places still have many people roaming around in public, and driving solo, with their masks securely in place.  Either they’ve been frightened by the experts, or they’re modern Pharisees.  We could never be THAT righteous.  But alas, the experts may emerge to declare another health emergency.  It worked last time.

You might have seen the skit the Saudi’s put on television.  If not you probably will.  It’s too depressing to be funny.  It makes you wonder how it’s received by the other world leaders.  It’s just too close to the truth.  He’s at a podium trying to say something coherent, and the actor playing Kamala is a dude in make-up and pantsuit.  Saudi Arabia is an ally.  Nothing like this happens without approval from the ruling class.  It’s sad that they found it funny, but now the whole world is watching.  They probably already were.

Governor Abbott made good on his promise to bus illegals to Washington D. C.  None are going against their will, and presumably they’re treating it like tourism, glad to be among the gleaming monuments rather than running in the mud along the Rio Grand.  As the redhead said, illegals are free to travel throughout the country.  That alone shows how much this bunch cares for the citizens.  But at least some of the “migrants” are out of Texas.  Send them to Baltimore or Philadelphia.  If they thought it was dangerous where they came from…  The enhanced inspections of big rigs at the border turned out to be a bust, and is in the process of being reversed.  Turns out it was going to hurt American citizens and Texans, so the governor dropped it.

The pope is talking, well, something we never heard of and don’t want to know about.  Hopefully, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  If he does, he must keep some pretty sick company.  You’re forgiven if you fail to be interested.

A pollster that worked for Bill and Hillary has said with current ratings that it’s utterly impossible a second term is in the offing.  We’re still wondering about the impossibility of the first term!  Now that was impossible!

As for Elon Musk buying Twitter wholesale, we’ll have to wait.  There are shoes yet to drop, and the Washington agencies have started some investigations to turn him into a criminal.  Over Tesla!  These electric cars aren’t about the save the planet, and I’m not going to Mars.  In fact with the continuation of the stupid mandates, I’m not flying either.  It was already stupid, But they’ve made it unbearable.

There are fireworks on the Temple Mount, literally.  Turns out Ramadan and the Passover fell at the same time this year.  It must be the third or fourth generation of rock throwers against rubber bullets.  Still, they haven’t learned a thing.

The war in Ukraine?  We’re starting to lose interest, or willingness to expose our senses to the madness of it all.  But don’t worry, the fake administration is on top of it.  Let’s hope it doesn’t escalate.  The Bible doesn’t say it can’t.

Mark

PS: We observed the Passover last evening, and had a great turnout for the cook-out and game day today. The kids are exhausted.  We’re meeting for dinner tonight when more will arrive.  The First Day of Unleavened Bread starts at sundown tonight, and it is an annual Holy Day.

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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Israel is concerned about an incident in Jerusalem, and it could be planning a “major operation in a sensitive area near al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem,” Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported.

Iran termed this an “unexpected event.” This is language coming from senior Iranian media sources close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC backs Hamas.

Hamas and other extremist groups have encouraged Palestinian tensions with Israel in Jerusalem during Ramadan. There were clashes and Palestinian media incitement against Israel’s foreign minister and other leaders on Sunday night.

The familiar cycle of accusing Israelis of “storming” the Old City of Jerusalem is imminent. Hamas incitement claiming it has a “right” to fire rockets will soon begin. The goal is another war with Israel like last year, a conflict orchestrated by Iran to test new rockets and drones.

This could be the messaging behind the Tasnim article. Iran is outraged by the recent Negev Summit of Arab foreign ministers in Israel, and it needs to increase its profile in the region.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the foreign ministers of the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt, in Sde Boker, Israel, March 27, 2022. (credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)
Tehran wants to use Palestinian suffering to increase these profits. The profits for Iran are not necessarily financial, but rather using proxies against Israel.

Iranian media claim Israel is concerned that a new “operation” in Jerusalem could “bring a new wave of dangerous conflicts and will lead the Hamas movement and the [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad to a very bloody and serious reaction.”

Israeli media have indeed reported that Israel could be ready for another conflict of the sort that took place last year. The driver behind these conflicts is Hamas and PIJ, as well as Iran.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-703194

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More than a dozen tear gas canisters and stun grenades landed in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, as police and protesters faced off inside the walled compound that surrounds it, said an Associated Press photographer at the scene. Smoke rose in front of the mosque and the iconic golden-domed shrine on the site, and rocks littered the nearby plaza. Inside one area of the compound, shoes and debris lay scattered over ornate carpets.

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City.CREDIT: AP

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Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli security forces amid clashes in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 8, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

To get a sense of the unparalleled potency of the city of Jerusalem you would have only needed to look at Latrun Junction on Saturday afternoon to watch dozens of young Muslim men and women, carrying prayer rugs, marching off in the direction of the Temple Mount after police kicked them off buses heading toward the capital for fear they would take part in violent protests at the holy site.

These pilgrims, mostly from Arab towns in northern Israel, made it to the Old City for evening prayers after hiking more than 30 kilometers (19 miles).

For weeks, the raw emotional, religious, and nationalistic power of Jerusalem has been out of control, driven by a deadly convergence of interconnected and disparate events, all taking place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which often sees heightened tensions.

The Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security service, and Israel Police have struggled to contain the violence and have enjoyed little assistance from the political echelon in attempting to do so, with Israeli lawmakers failing to cooperate with one another as the various parties struggle to form a government coalition.

Hundreds of Arab Israelis marching on Route 1 making their way to Jerusalem, May 8, 2021 (Nowm Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

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Palestinian protesters look on during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, on May 7, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Israeli police burst into the Temple Mount compound on Friday evening after Palestinians threw rocks and bottles at officers, as widespread clashes in Jerusalem spread to the holy site following prayers held there on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Police said 17 police officers were hurt and around half of those hospitalized, with one in moderate condition after taking a rock to the head. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that at least 205 Palestinians were wounded in clashes throughout Jerusalem, mostly around the Temple Mount and by Damascus Gate. Eighty-eight Palestinians were hospitalized, mostly for injuries with rubber-coated steel bullets, it said.

By midnight the violence — some of the worst in Jerusalem for years —  seemed to have subsided, with most protesters dispersing.

Police said Friday evening that force used “riot dispersal means following violent disturbances on the Temple Mount, during which hundreds of suspects began throwing stone, bottles, and objects at police officers.”

Video from the scene showed pitched battles, with Palestinians throwing chairs, shoes, rocks, and bottles, and shooting fireworks, and police responding with stun grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets.

Protesters chanted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great.” Several wounded demonstrators could be seen being carried away on stretchers.

Most of the Palestinians hospitalized were being treated at Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem. The hospital was urgently calling for people to come and donate blood.

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