Yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli government announced that it would appeal against the decision of the Magistrate's Court, which allows settlers to perform their Talmudic prayers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
A statement issued by the Israeli government secretariat stated that the state will submit an appeal in this regard to the Central Court. The statement added that there is no change in the status quo in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it is not planned to do so.
He explained that the decision of the Magistrate's Court deals only with the issue of the behavior of minors (Israelis who were arrested and deported from Al-Aqsa Mosque because of their loud prayers), which was put to it only.
Earlier, the Israeli Magistrate's Court issued a preliminary ruling allowing settlers to perform their Talmudic prayers with a "loud voice" and to perform something similar to kneeling while storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
And Anadolu Agency reported that the Israeli court's decision says that settlers' prayer loudly and bending over the ground inside Al-Aqsa Mosque "is something that cannot be criminalized or considered as violating civil peace."
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs saw the decision as "a declaration of religious war and a coup against the status quo." The ministry added that this decision represented an official Israeli coup against the status quo in Al-Aqsa Mosque and completely changing it.
And she stressed that the decision "is new evidence that the judicial system and courts in Israel are an integral part of the occupation system itself", and another evidence of providing legal protection and coverage for the incursions of Jewish extremists into Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the aim of consolidating its temporal division until it is divided spatially.
The Palestinian Presidency warned against the decision of the occupation court to allow settlers to perform Talmudic rituals in Al-Aqsa, describing the matter as a "dangerous violation of the historical situation in the Temple Mount," while the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that it played with fire and crossed all red lines.
Jordan also considered the decision null and without legal effect.
On the other hand, the Israeli Channel Seven said that the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will appeal the Magistrate's Court's decision to allow Jews to perform Talmudic prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Minister of Regional Cooperation, Issawi Freij, said that the court’s decision violated the current situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque, describing it as “irresponsible and dangerous,” adding that he requested a postponement of the implementation of the decision “to stop setting fires in the area.”
During the past weeks, tension prevailed in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Squares, following Israeli incursions into the mosque and the outbreak of confrontations because of them, which left injuries and arrests among Palestinians.
In October 2021, the same court decided to allow Jews to pray silently in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli violations in Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood (central Jerusalem), May 2021, caused the outbreak of a military confrontation between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip, which lasted for 11 days.
The Palestinians adhere to East Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state, based on international legitimacy resolutions, which do not recognize Israel's occupation of the city in 1967 or its annexation in 1981.