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In their daily discussions, Israeli news channels continued to warn of the dangers of restricting the entry of Palestinian worshipers from within the Green Line and from the occupied West Bank to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan, as a number of them saw this as a fuse that would ignite a religious war in the region.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday, Monday, that Israel will place restrictions on the entry of worshipers into Al-Aqsa Mosque during the upcoming month of Ramadan, according to security conditions, while Israeli Channel 13 said that Netanyahu agreed to this restriction, according to the request of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

In this context, the introduction to the main news bulletin on Channel 12 Unit Levy quoted the Israeli Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) and the army, in addition to Defense Minister Yoav Galant, as opposing Netanyahu’s adoption of Ben Gvir’s recommendation, considering it a decision that could set off the situation in a potentially explosive period.

The channel's political analyst, Dana Weiss, confirmed these oppositions, noting that precise warnings were issued by the security services warning of the region's combustion, and that introducing Al-Aqsa Mosque into the equation would ignite a religious war, but the Netanyahu government ignored that.

Weiss believes that Ben Gvir is targeting Arabs in Israel and is therefore working to prevent them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque and impose restrictions on them, as if after the failure of his previous efforts to ignite the situation, he says, “Let’s see if we can anger them.”

Provoking the Islamic world

In turn, former head of the Mossad's Political Security Division, Zahr Balti, said that voices will come from Jordan, Egypt, and the Gulf states, as well as from the countries of the Abraham Accords, saying that the Islamic world should not be provoked during the month of Ramadan, calling on the prime minister to "show responsibility."

In the same context, Channel 13’s military affairs correspondent, Alon Ben David, said that there is a conviction among the security services that if the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is not able, over a period of 4 months, to unify the squares and detonate the situation in the West Bank and Israel, then the restriction on worshipers’ entry into the mosque will be necessary. The maximum would cause this.

He believes that, with his recommendation, Ben Gvir places the match near the barrel of gunpowder to see if it will ignite, which was supported by former Knesset member Mickey Rosenthal, saying that Ben Gvir’s goal is to blow up the situation so that we become a people who do not consider non-Jews.

As for Mickey Levy, a member of the Knesset from the “There is a Future” party, he said that including the Al-Aqsa Mosque into the equation is tantamount to lighting the fuse of an explosive substance, warning that this will push tens of thousands to come to Jerusalem from outside it, which will lead to facing difficult incidents of riots, dragging All of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as the north.

Source: Al Jazeera