“We renew our call for the Palestinian people to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque and be on high alert in Jerusalem in order to defend their identity, religion, and first Qibla. The Israeli occupation must know that all attempts aimed at dividing the Al-Aqsa compound temporally and spatially and Judaising Muslim holy sites will not pass and will not achieve its malicious goals.”“Hamas warns Israeli occupation against allowing Israeli settlers to storm Al-Aqsa,” Hamas, May 4, 2022, https://hamas.ps/en/post/4021/Hamas-warns-Israeli-occupation-against-allowing-Israeli-settlers-to-storm-Al-Aqsa.
Hamas statement, May 4, 2022
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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