According to the media, there were 1,600 raids during the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
In addition to protecting against settler incursions, Israeli authorities “tightened the siege of Jerusalem activists by deporting six of them and banning them from traveling,” he warned.
Fifteen days ago, Israel’s Beyadenu movement, a group viewed by Palestinians as racist and extremist, announced that some 49,000 Jews had broken into the esplanade of mosques in the past 12 months.
The data is reassuring and encouraging; there is stability and consistency in the number of Jews climbing the Temple Mount (as followers of the religion call it), said Tom Nisani, executive director of Beyadenu, which promotes the community’s entry despite widespread opposition the Arabs and the associated confrontations.
The site is sacred to the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Due to agreements made decades ago, non-Muslims, including Jews, are only allowed to visit the complex under numerous conditions and at certain times, but not to pray.
This congregation performs their prayers at the western wall, the so-called Wailing Wall, which is an external barrier to the esplanade and is the only remnant of the second biblical temple built by King Herod.
Given the massive increase in visitor numbers and the slow expansion of local Jewish prayer, Muslim and Palestinian authorities denounce that Israel is trying to change the status quo.
The Esplanade is part of the Old City in the eastern part of the metropolis, which was occupied by the Israeli army during the 1967 war.
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