OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
Palestinian warnings are increasing regarding Israeli plans described as the most dangerous since the occupation of Jerusalem, coinciding with the so-called 59th Hebrew anniversary of the occupation of the city, amid indications that the occupation government and Temple organizations seek to impose new facts inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, including Friday incursions for the first time since 1967, and expanding the scope of temporal and spatial control over the Mosque.
In an urgent appeal, Al-Quds International Foundation warned that Thursday and Friday, 14 and 15 May 2026, may witness an unprecedented escalation against Al-Aqsa Mosque, in light of what it described as the occupation’s attempt to exploit the atmosphere of war and ongoing aggression to impose historical changes inside the Mosque.
The foundation said that the occupation authorities, supported by ministers and extreme right-wing political figures, are working to achieve three gradual goals starting with imposing wide incursions interspersed with Talmudic rituals and the raising of Israeli flags inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa, leading to an attempt to impose a Friday incursion, which means breaking the privacy of the Islamic day inside the Mosque and establishing what the settlement groups consider an equal right for settlers in Al-Aqsa. Efforts to impose a Friday incursion
According to the analytical paper issued by the foundation, the most dangerous thing being prepared for is the attempt to impose a settler incursion on Friday, in a precedent that has not occurred since the occupation of Jerusalem, which the foundation considers a dangerous shift toward stabilizing the temporal division of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Data indicates that Temple groups have escalated their calls in recent weeks to storm Al-Aqsa on Friday, coinciding with political pressure exerted by Knesset members and ministers in the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, as 22 Israeli politicians, including 19 members of the Likud Party and nine ministers, signed a petition demanding that incursions into the Mosque be allowed on Friday or that incursion hours be extended if that is not possible.
The foundation believes that this move reflects a consensus within the ruling coalition to push for escalatory steps in Al-Aqsa, especially with the approach of the Israeli elections, and the attempt of figures such as Itamar Ben Gvir to enhance their political presence by achieving symbolic achievements related to Al-Aqsa.
The paper also talks about Israeli efforts to impose a new evening incursion period after the Asr prayer, which would lead to increasing the daily incursion hours from six and a half hours to about nine hours, which the foundation considers an additional step toward expanding the temporal division of the Mosque.
These efforts are linked to attempts to connect the settler flag march directly to Al-Aqsa Mosque, so that the settlers’ activities extend from the Old City to the inside of the Mosque’s courtyards during the evening hours.
The foundation also warned of the possibility of the Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, storming the roofed prayer halls inside Al-Aqsa, primarily the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Qibli Mosque, after obtaining a rabbinical fatwa permitting this, in a step aimed at establishing what settlement groups call Israeli sovereignty inside the Mosque, and undermining what remains of the role of the Jordanian Islamic Waqf. Flag march and demonstration of sovereignty
In the same context, Israeli preparations continue to organize the flag march in occupied Jerusalem, where thousands of settlers are expected to participate in routes passing through the Old City and the vicinity of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid fears of attacks on Palestinians and their property.
This march is part of the activities organized by the occupation authorities annually to commemorate the anniversary of the occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, and is usually accompanied by extensive incursions into Al-Aqsa and Talmudic rituals inside its courtyards.
According to the paper, the occupation seeks this year to go beyond the traditional nature of incursions, by intensifying manifestations of Israeli sovereignty inside the Mosque, including raising Israeli flags, singing the national anthem, and performing collective Talmudic epic prostration rituals inside the courtyards.
Meanwhile, Al-Quds International Foundation called for the launch of the widest media and popular campaign to mobilize Palestinians in Jerusalem, the Green Line, and the West Bank toward Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City, considering that the dense Palestinian presence represents the most prominent factor capable of thwarting Israeli plans.
It stressed that previous experiences, especially during the Bab al-Asbat uprising and the Battle of Saif al-Quds in 2021, showed that popular ribat and intensive mass presence contributed to disrupting the occupation’s plans inside the Mosque.
The foundation also demanded that the scholars of the nation, political and human rights figures, and the media intensify urgent action to face what it described as the expected historical aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to warn of the repercussions of any new change in the status quo inside the Jerusalem Sanctuary.