Final week, Israeli Nationwide Safety Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stated that Palestinian residents of the West Financial institution “shouldn’t be allowed” entry to Jerusalem to hope throughout Ramadan.
“We can not take dangers,” he stated, including: “We can not have girls and youngsters hostage in Gaza and permit celebrations for Hamas on the Temple Mount.”
Ben Gvir leads a hard-right social gathering advocating Jewish management of the compound.
The US has been urgent for a deal earlier than Ramadan begins through which Israel would halt strikes within the Gaza Strip and hostages snatched on Oct 7 can be freed.
The Israeli army marketing campaign in Gaza has killed a minimum of 29,954 individuals, principally girls and youngsters, in accordance with the most recent figures by the well being ministry within the Hamas-run territory.
It was launched in response to Hamas’s Oct 7 assault on southern Israel which resulted within the deaths of round 1,160 individuals, principally civilians, in accordance with an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.
