The intervention of the Israeli police on the mosques esplanade arouses great emotion.
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It has been a week since young Palestinians replay the battle of Fort Alamo in the Al-Aqsa mosque, in the heart of the third holy place of Islam, the esplanade of the mosques. Every night, they barricaded themselves there to face the Israeli police before dawn. Friday, April 15, the images of these forces penetrating into the mosque, aligning these young people on the carpets, went around the planet. They have not entered it since, but they injured more than 200 Palestinians in a week on the esplanade, including the elderly and journalists, aroused indignation that does not weaken in the Muslim world.
The United Arab Emirates, who normalized their relations with Israel in 2020, brought the first penknife since the Abraham agreements of 2020, by summoning the Israeli ambassador. Jordan, guardian of the holy places, strongly condemns these police operations. The United States has dispatched an envoy to the State Department to call for “de-escalation”, in unison in the United Nations. Now the president of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, 86, is once again drawn from his isolation for the needs of the diplomatic dialogue.
In this week when Jewish and Christian Easter coincide, for the first time since 1991, with the Holy Muslim month of Ramadan, the Israeli government is fragile. Deprived of his majority in Parliament in early April, he must react with confidence to a series of terrorist attacks, carried out in Israeli cities by isolated Palestinians, who killed 14 people between March 22 and April 7.
The voluntary besieged from Al-Aqsa provoke the police. Videos show them throwing stones towards the lamentation wall, a vestige of the second temple, below the esplanade of the mosques. They are looking for confrontation. Military correspondents of the Israeli press consider them instrumentalized by Hamas.
rupture of the “status quo”
Israel for his part claims to ensure freedom of worship, including for Muslims. But the Al-Aqsa enclosure is a political place. It is the heart of Palestinian identity. Normally, its sumptuous gardens are the last public space where Palestinians in the holy city can meet, almost out of the grip of Israel. The Jewish State cannot decide what form takes resistance to its occupation of the territories, which it has maintained since 1967, while the government of Naftali Bennett no longer considers herself to offer the slightest perspective to finish.
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