To miss the opportunity for the settlers, Hamas calls for a public mobilization to Al-Aqsa on Tuesday, coinciding with the “Flags March”

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on the residents and youth of occupied Jerusalem to rally in the squares of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the streets of the Old City, in order to miss the opportunity for extremist settlers who intend to organize the so-called "flags march" on Tuesday.

In a statement issued by Hamas, today, Sunday, the movement's spokesman for the city of Jerusalem, Muhammad Hamadeh, said, "Let next Tuesday be a day of mobilization and bonding towards Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a day of anger and defiance of the occupier."

He added, "So show God and your people from you what you have done in it, and be the best sword for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa."

He pointed out that "our steadfast people stationed in Jerusalem and the surroundings of Jerusalem inspired the peoples of the earth to be stubborn, steadfast, and confront the occupier to prevent it from imposing its will and changing the features of Jerusalem as an identity and form."

Hamadeh pointed out that "the hateful occupation unleashes once again its stray flocks to desecrate the alleys and alleys of ancient Jerusalem, and to raise the flags of their ephemeral entity, in a move that does not stem from any confidence and strength, and what motivated it was its failure and retraction."

Police acquiesce to extremists

Last Friday, the Israeli occupation police in Jerusalem reached an agreement with the organizers of the "flags march" to be organized next Tuesday to hold a "flags dance" in the Bab al-Amud area, with the march passing from there towards Bab al-Khalil, where the participants are divided into two parts on their way. To the Al-Buraq Wall, while the Palestinian resistance factions warned against harming Al-Aqsa.

Israeli media quoted the organizers of the march as saying that a group of participants will pass from the Islamic Quarter in the Old City and another group from the Jewish Quarter.

The Ministerial Council for Security and Political Affairs had decided to organize the march next Tuesday instead of last Thursday, for fear of the deterioration of the security situation, and thus threw the ball into the court of the new Israeli government, which is supposed to gain the confidence of the Knesset on Sunday.

Extremists of settlers usually organize a march of flags in the Old City on the anniversary of the occupation of East Jerusalem (Al-Jazeera)

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Jerusalem, Elias Karam, said that the Israeli police apparently succumbed to the pressures exerted by the extreme right, during the past few days, whether on the police leadership or on the political level in Israel.

He pointed out that the approved path is not the path that the organizers wanted, but it represents a middle way.

This march is usually held on the anniversary of the occupation of the city of Jerusalem according to the Hebrew calendar, but its organization has been hampered this year due to the high tension that prevailed in the city of Jerusalem, and the Palestinian resistance firing a missile at the city prior to the outbreak of the war on Gaza.

Hamas and Jihad warn

After the Israeli police agreed to hold the "flags march", last Friday, the Islamic Resistance Movements (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad warned of the repercussions of Israel's practices in Jerusalem, and the possible collapse of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

Khalil al-Haya, deputy head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, told reporters in Gaza that "unless the Israeli occupation curbs the extremism of settlers in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, these lightning bolts will explode in his face."

Al-Hayya threatened that if calls for organizing marches by extremist Jewish groups continue in the Old City of East Jerusalem, "the ceasefire will remain fragile," stressing that "in order for the ceasefire to continue, the project of displacement to the outskirts of Jerusalem must be stopped."

Meanwhile, a member of the Islamic Jihad's Political Bureau, Khaled al-Batsh, considered in a statement that the outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is trying to export his crises to be resolved at the expense of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem."

Al-Batsh called on all parties to "stop Netanyahu and his government from the scorched-earth policy that he is following against the Palestinian people, to ensure that he avoids the courts and loses his political future."

Since last Thursday, tension has prevailed in occupied Jerusalem, as a result of a series of provocations by settlers, including the visit of MK Itamar Ben Gvir from the far-right to the Damascus Gate.

Ben Gvir came to Bab al-Amud to protest against the Israeli police's decision to prevent him from organizing the flag march, but he left after Palestinians confronted him.

The occupation police arrested a number of Palestinians who tried to confront him, and video clips documented the assault and abuse of a number of young men during their arrest.