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Analysts who spoke to the program "Gaza...what next?"

Israel will continue its war on the Gaza Strip during the month of Ramadan, but they did not rule out that popular uprising would escalate in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the 1948 territories in solidarity with the Gazans who are being starved.

The month of Ramadan this year falls in light of the war of extermination, starvation and thirst to which the people of Gaza are exposed, and therefore the Palestinians will express their anger at what is happening to their brothers in the Gaza Strip, according to Dr. Hassan Khraisha, Vice President of the Palestinian Legislative Council, confirms.

Khreisha pointed out that people in the West Bank stopped all celebrations and iftars during Ramadan in solidarity with Gaza, and said that there is real resistance rising in the West Bank.

He expected that the Palestinians would challenge the occupation and its security measures and would reach Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially during the holy month, noting that Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem had always been the center of Palestinian donations and uprisings against the occupation.

However, the senior researcher at Al Jazeera Center for Studies, Dr. Liqaa Makki, believes that investing in the month of Ramadan requires what he called “a vanguard force that moves public opinion,” and not just a popular outburst from the people that may end quickly if it is subjected to repression.

25,000 worshipers attended Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque on February 9 (Al Jazeera)

Makki does not believe that Israel will try to use the month of Ramadan in a way that serves the course of the war it is waging on the Gaza Strip. “If it wants escalation in the West Bank, it will take certain measures to provoke the Palestinians in Jerusalem, and if it wants calm so that it can devote itself to Gaza, it will facilitate the procedures, and perhaps facilitate them in a day and complicate them.” In the end, to serve their interests.”

The month of Ramadan this year, in the view of the writer and researcher in international affairs, Hossam Shaker, has its significance and specificity in light of the war of genocide and starvation to which the people of Gaza are subjected, and it is a season of weakness for the Israeli occupation, “because the power of force is unable to resolve the situation in the face of the mass of popular masses that are gathered together.” We cannot deal with him according to the logic of mass massacres, specifically in Jerusalem.”

Ramadan this year may be the season of settling overdue scores with the occupation in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and inside Palestine, and the Arab and Islamic peoples will not be immune from that if they pick up the message and act according to what is dictated by the appropriate solidarity position with Gaza, according to the writer and researcher in international affairs.

Shaker believes that the occupation will be in trouble if it allows the Palestinian masses to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque, and if it does not allow it, it will have played with fire and escalated the situation in a way that could lead to an explosion of the situation in Jerusalem and perhaps in the West Bank, the territories of 1948, and in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

Regarding the course of the war during the month of Ramadan, the senior researcher at the Al Jazeera Center for Studies suggested that there would be no truce during the holy month, and that the attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip would be postponed until after Ramadan. He pointed out that the Americans may have a desire for calm, but not out of respect for the holy month. But for certain timings imposed by the strategy for the Gaza war.

Source: Al Jazeera