Defense Minister Israel Katz has vowed to strengthen Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, which Palestinians call the Square of the Mosques.
"Israel haters around the world continue to make decisions against us and protest, and we will strengthen our control and sovereignty over Jerusalem, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, forever," Katz wrote on X, sharing images of himself visiting the Wall with soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. Today, the Temple Mount was visited by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, sparking protests from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, writes A2 CNN.
This morning, Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right politician, led a settlers' incursion into the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, accompanied by Likud MK Amit Halevi.
According to the Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem (the organization that manages Muslim buildings in the area), at least 1,251 settlers occupied the courtyards surrounding the mosque. The settlers performed rituals, including prayers, dancing, and loud singing, which could be heard throughout the complex, A2 CNN reports.
The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs strongly condemned today's intrusion into the Square of the Mosques (Temple Mount) by far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and several members of the Knesset. In a statement, the ministry described the action as an open provocation to the feelings of Muslims around the world, not just in Palestine.
Meanwhile, six people have died in the past 24 hours due to hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources reported today, citing Wafa. The deaths were recorded in several hospitals in the area.
According to public data from the UN (Monitoring & Tracking DashboardUN2720), a system that tracks every aid truck entering Gaza using QR codes, between May 19 and August 2, approximately 40,000 tons of humanitarian aid were unloaded, but only 4,100 tons (10%) reached their destination. The rest was marked as “interrupted,” meaning that the shipments were “diverted en route to Gaza, either peacefully by hungry people or forcibly by armed actors.”
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