Temple Mount: PM continues Jewish visits after Muslim-police clashes

Bennett met with Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev and Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai after police entered the area to stop rocks being thrown from al-Aqsa Mosque.

“The prime minister instructed to allow organized and safe ascendance of Jews to the Mount, while keeping order at the site,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.

The Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site, where the two temples stood. Tisha B’Av marks the anniversary of their destruction in 586 BCE and 70 CE.

Religious leaders from east Jerusalem called on Arab Israelis to come to the Temple Mount on Sunday and Monday, Ynet reported.

The Red Crescent reported that a number of Palestinians were injured in clashes with police. The majority of the injuries were treated on site, according to the organization.

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After the protesters were cleared from the area by police, Jews began going to the Temple Mount Sunday morning in order to pray there on Tisha Be’Av.

Ayala Ben-Gvir, wife of far-right Otzma Yehudit MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, went to pray at the Temple Mount with hundreds of other Jews, saying that “it is important not only to sit and cry, but to show up and go on the Temple Mount.”

“We are not in exile; we must think how to improve and act for sovereignty and Jewish visits to this holy place,” she said. “Whoever controls the Temple Mount controls the Land of Israel in its entirety, and this is how we will work toward control of this holy and important site.”

Hamas warned on Friday that Israel was “playing with fire” by allowing Jews to visit the Temple Mount and march in the Old City, as it does most years.

The terrorist group called on Gazans to “keep their fingers on the trigger” to defend Jerusalem.