Hamas calls for mass Nakba Day ascent to Temple Mount
Sunday marks both Nakba Day and Pesach Sheni (Second Passover), and both Hamas and Jewish Temple Mount activist organizations called for people to visit, setting up a potential clash.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Published: MAY 14, 2022
Hamas called on the Palestinian "masses" to travel to the Temple Mount on Sunday in order to "thwart the evil plans of the occupation," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a statement published on Saturday. Sunday is both Nakba Day and Pesach Sheni (Second Passover), where Jews in ancient times would sacrifice the pascal lamb if they were not able to on the usual date. The "Temple Organizations Staff" posted a flyer on Facebook on Tuesday calling on Jews to visit the site on Sunday, in order to "promote [religious] commandments associated with the Temple."
"Repeating the call to storm Al-Aqsa will not succeed in changing its Islamic [character], and our people will protect it strongly," the Hamas statement began. "The calls of the extremist so-called 'Zionist Temple groups' to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque tomorrow, Sunday, commemorating the Nakba, and the occupation authorities' permission to do so, is a dangerous escalation and a provocation to the feelings of our people and our nation, and leads to a clash that for which the Zionist occupation will bears the full consequences.
more.............. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-706665
Sunday marks both Nakba Day and Pesach Sheni (Second Passover), and both Hamas and Jewish Temple Mount activist organizations called for people to visit, setting up a potential clash.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Published: MAY 14, 2022
Hamas called on the Palestinian "masses" to travel to the Temple Mount on Sunday in order to "thwart the evil plans of the occupation," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a statement published on Saturday. Sunday is both Nakba Day and Pesach Sheni (Second Passover), where Jews in ancient times would sacrifice the pascal lamb if they were not able to on the usual date. The "Temple Organizations Staff" posted a flyer on Facebook on Tuesday calling on Jews to visit the site on Sunday, in order to "promote [religious] commandments associated with the Temple."
"Repeating the call to storm Al-Aqsa will not succeed in changing its Islamic [character], and our people will protect it strongly," the Hamas statement began. "The calls of the extremist so-called 'Zionist Temple groups' to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque tomorrow, Sunday, commemorating the Nakba, and the occupation authorities' permission to do so, is a dangerous escalation and a provocation to the feelings of our people and our nation, and leads to a clash that for which the Zionist occupation will bears the full consequences.
more.............. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-706665
