With judicial permission, settlers blow trumpets near the graves of the Companions, east of Al-Aqsa

Occupied Jerusalem -

The two venerable companions, Ubadah ibn al-Samit and Shaddad ibn Aws, when they lived and were buried in Jerusalem after the Omari conquest, did not know that Jews would blow the trumpet meters away from their graves in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, after an Israeli court in Jerusalem authorized the blowing of the trumpet and the performance of Jewish rites near The eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the settlers blew the trumpet dozens of times after a week.

Sequence of events

It began on the fourth of September, when former Knesset member Yehuda Glick sounded the trumpet on his mobile phone while storming the eastern area of ​​Al-Aqsa Mosque, and as a result, the occupation police handed him a decision preventing the storming of Al-Aqsa for two months.

In response, Glick decided to blow the shofar (trumpet in Hebrew) around the Jerusalem wall and Al-Aqsa Mosque, so he blew from the Church of the Teardrop in the middle of the Mount of Olives overlooking Al-Aqsa, and the Umayyad palaces south of the mosque.

Then he stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, east of Al-Aqsa, on the morning of September 15, and blew the trumpet in front of the Gate of Mercy from the outside, and raised the occupation flag over one of the graves, before 3 of the occupation soldiers came to his rescue and secured the continuation of the blowing after Jerusalemites confronted him.

Glick repeated the ball three days later, specifically on September 18, when he stormed the cemetery with two extremists from the Temple groups called Tom Nisani and Emmanuel Brosh, to be confronted by Jerusalemites. Glick and his two companions stayed away from the cemetery until the end of the Jewish holidays, but the court refused the police's request and only kept them away for a few hours.

Bab al-Rahma cemetery is one of the gates of the wall of Jerusalem and al-Aqsa, which settlers believe is the eastern gate of the alleged temple (the island)

court permission

In addition to annulling the banishment, the court's decision on September 19 included permission to blow the trumpet and perform Jewish religious rites near the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The occupation police appealed the decision to rescind the deportation, but suddenly withdrew its appeal hours later, after which Glick and others stormed the cemetery for the third time in less than a week, specifically on September 20, and blew the trumpet raising the occupation flag among the graves.

The settlers did not stop blowing the trumpet after Glick’s action, as the extremist Emmanuel Brosh stormed the cemetery yesterday, Thursday, and blew the trumpet repeatedly in the presence of the occupation police, and the sound of the trumpet was heard inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, specifically in the eastern region, coinciding with the storming settlers performing their prayers there near the gate mercy.

with immunity from the Knesset

The most recent blast was this Friday morning, when religious Zionism Knesset member Simha Rotman broke into the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, accompanied by a few settlers. He blew the trumpet and the settlers participated in their dancing and singing among the graves. In it the shofar is blown, and there is no place more convenient than the Gate of Mercy and the eastern wall of prayer, blow a large shofar for our freedom.”

It is noteworthy that the shofar (trumpet) is one of the instruments of Jewish rituals, which consists of a ram's horn blown during and before the Jewish New Year, and on Yom Kippur as well.

The blowing on it symbolizes the acceleration of the advent of the "awaited savior", as it symbolizes Israeli sovereignty, and it blows on the Independence Day and moments of victory, as happened during the occupation of Al-Aqsa and Sinai.

The settlers blow the trumpet a few meters from the tombs of the two companions, Shaddad ibn Aws and Ubadah ibn al-Samit in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery (Al-Jazeera)

Prelude to blowing at Al-Aqsa

The Supreme Islamic Council and the Council of Scholars and Preachers in Beit Al-Maqdis issued a joint statement two days ago, in which they said that "the occupation courts have neither jurisdiction nor jurisdiction in matters of holy sites, and the decision to allow the blowing of the trumpet in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery is a violation of the sanctity of cemeteries."

The statement also called on the occupation to return the keys to the Mughrabi Gate, rejecting the storming of the mosque from any door, and blaming the occupation government for any tension in Al-Aqsa and its surroundings.

For his part, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that the decision to allow blowing into the Bab Al-Rahma cemetery is a prelude to a more dangerous next step, which is blowing the trumpet in Al-Aqsa Mosque during the storming of the Hebrew New Year two days later, adding that this is similar to the decision to allow silent Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa And then the public prayer, explaining that the step of blowing into the Al-Aqsa Mosque is subject to the Arab and Islamic response.

The blowing of the trumpet is a Jewish ritual symbolizing the hasty coming of the “Waited Savior” and Israeli (European) sovereignty

year's harvest

The specialist in Al-Aqsa Mosque affairs, Muhammad Al-Jallad, explains to Al-Jazeera Net that the trumpet was deliberately blown in the Bab Al-Rahma cemetery with the intention of the temple groups to achieve the greatest amount of achievements ahead of the Hebrew New Year's Day - which falls on the 26th of this month - where the feast represents a harvest and culmination of the product of the whole year in Al-Aqsa and its surroundings, At the level of the temporal and spatial division and the moral revival of the alleged temple.

Al-Jallad explains that the blowing of the trumpet inside Al-Aqsa did not happen until the time of its occupation in 1967, and again in secret last year, and it is not excluded that it will be blown after days a third time due to several factors, most notably the length of the upcoming holiday season, which will last 20 days, and the settlers were able to make qualitative leaps in Al-Aqsa is like the loud collective prayers, storming the mosque by the thousands and raising the flag inside it.

He added, "The Temple groups are going through a golden period to implement their agendas in Al-Aqsa because of their influence within the occupation government, the Palestinian division, the absence of resistance, the wave of normalization, and the preoccupation of the Arab countries with their affairs. Our readiness and unity.

It is noteworthy that the Bab al-Rahma cemetery is one of the largest and oldest Muslim cemeteries in occupied Jerusalem, with an area of ​​23 dunums along the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque from Bab al-Asbat to the borders of the Umayyad palaces in the south. The occupation confiscated part of its lands and prevented burial in it in preparation for the establishment of a biblical garden.