This is during the month of Ramadan. Palestinian resistance groups instantly activated their co-cells to decide what to do. This means Hamas, Fatah, the communists and even the ISIS-adjacent group whose name I forgot right now. They are calling for general mobilisation to defend the mosque.

The Telegram channel I follow blew up with 33 messages overnight.

Palestinians are responding to the call to defend the mosque: https://t.me/GazaNewsPlus/1157

Occupation forces have been deployed and started dispersing the defenders with tear gas grenades and flashbangs. The fight started in the early morning of Friday April 15th local time. Real ammunition has been found in the mosque, fired by the occupation.

A few dozen Palestinians were injured and were transferred to hospitals, but no deaths have been reported yet.

I haven’t had news in over two hours but will update as needed.

The analysis so far:

This is highly reminiscent of Operation Sword of Jerusalem last year. Similar events led to the biggest joined operation (and biggest Hamas operation) so far, where hundreds of rockets were fired on the occupier over the summer, after they tried to attack the same mosque.

Returning to the Mount is an extremist group that even settler police doesn’t like and arrests. They are also known as Chozrim Lahar. They also said they would offer cash rewards for sacrifices to the mosque, as per their beliefs – the police says they’ve forbidden them from that. I can’t find much more information about them unfortunately but if they are cause for concern enough for both Palestinians and the settler police, and they can offer cash rewards, they must have some amount of influence and funds. Checking their facebook, which has not been updated since 2018, I can see they are a very complex group though – at times they call Israel and apartheid state, and at other times they were giving out flags of their settler country.

The Al-Aqsa mosque was started before 680 C.E., and is the biggest mosque in Jerusalem. It is an even more important structure during the time of Ramadan, which lasts a whole month and we are only halfway through it.

We can see here that the occupier is scared of retaliation, and is still reeling from Sword of Jerusalem. I remember bibi’s fascist successor running to the US Senate to ask emergency money for the Iron Dome, as they had almost entirely depleted it (and even while using it, plenty of rockets made it to the ground). Palestinians are still united (this can be seen in the mobilisation to defend the mosque), and this scares the occupier.

  • @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOPM
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    22 years ago

    The occupier is preventing Palestinians from accessing the mosque of Al-Aqsa and they have deployed troops along the roads to Jerusalem as well.

    Hamas has tested missiles into the sea from Gaza.

    Riot police is moving to the mosque and dispersing Muslims so that settlers can quietly walk into the mosque, as a show of pure provocation.