Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, which witnessed a heavy deployment of the Israeli occupation forces, while the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on the Palestinian people to revolt against the occupation and its settlers.
The Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem said, in a brief statement, that 40,000 people participated in Friday prayers in the blessed mosque, and the Palestinians performed the absentee prayers for the souls of the martyrs.
Large forces of the occupation police were deployed in East Jerusalem, especially the Old City and its alleys, and at the outer gates of the mosque. They stopped a number of young men at the gates of the Old City and checked their identities.
The occupation police also launched a small drone over the mosque during the prayer period to monitor the situation inside the mosque.
The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Ismail Nahdah condemned the Israeli escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and said in his sermon, "We all hope for the end of the hateful occupation on our land and the liberation of our country and our holy places, foremost of which is Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque."
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of settlers, led by a member of the Knesset from the right-wing Religious Zionism party, Itamar Ben Gvir, attacked residents in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Videos showed Ben Gvir pointing his personal pistol while he was among dozens of settlers in Sheikh Jarrah.
Funeral procession of Dbayas set out from Khalil Suleiman Hospital to his family's home in Jenin refugee camp (Anadolu Agency)
The funeral of the martyr of Jenin
Hundreds of Palestinians attended the funeral of Matin Dbaya, 20, who was shot dead by the occupation army in the Jenin governorate, north of the occupied West Bank.
The funeral procession proceeded from Khalil Suleiman Hospital to his family's home in the Jenin refugee camp, and then was buried in the camp's cemetery. The mourners raised Palestinian flags and chanted slogans condemning the Israeli violations.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health had announced the death of two civilians and the injury of 6 others, one of whom was in a critical condition, with Israeli bullets, today, Friday, in clashes during the storming of Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Palestine said that large Israeli military forces stormed the city of Jenin this morning from several entrances, and eyewitnesses confirmed that severe confrontations broke out between dozens of Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli army.
In turn, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned, in a statement, the Israeli violations, and said that the escalation in field executions crimes is clear evidence that the ruling Israeli coalition is implementing the plans and policies of the right and the extreme right, and is exporting its internal crises to the Palestinian arena at the expense of Palestinian blood.
A former festival in Gaza in solidarity with Jerusalem and the West Bank (Getty Images - archive)
Gaza marches
In Gaza, thousands of people in Gaza participated in demonstrations in Khan Yunis and Jabalia camp (north);
In solidarity with Jerusalem, which is witnessing tension between the residents and the Israeli police.
The leader of the Hamas movement, Mushir al-Masri, said that the West Bank and Jerusalem are entering the occupation in a new phase entitled, "The armed struggle is the choice of an entire people."
Al-Masri considered that blowing the trumpet, religious rituals (for the settlers), damage to Al-Aqsa Mosque, and daily incursions mean a great provocation to the feelings of our people and our nation, and an uprising for all our people in all their places of existence.
In this context, the Joint Chamber of the Palestinian Resistance Factions announced that it will hold a press conference this evening, Friday, on the escalating events in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Since last Saturday evening, Jerusalem and its suburbs have been witnessing great tension, after the occupation imposed strict restrictions on Shuafat camp, under the pretext of searching for a Palestinian who is believed to have shot his forces at the Shuafat military camp checkpoint north of East Jerusalem, which led to the death of a female soldier and the injury of two soldiers, one of whom was seriously wounded. .
Several cities in the West Bank have also been experiencing tension for months, after the Israeli occupation army carried out operations, concentrated in Nablus and Jenin, under the pretext of pursuing wanted persons.