According to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this decision was made following a meeting on security issues.
"On the unanimous recommendation of the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff, the head of the General Security Service and the Inspector General of Police, it was decided to ban Jews and tourists from visiting the Temple Mount until the end of Ramadan," the report said.
On April 9, hundreds of Palestinians barricaded themselves at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Prior to this, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, condemned the Israeli special operation against Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.