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Hamas condemns Israeli minister's visit to
al-Aqsa compound as 'deliberate provocation'
Hamas have condemned Israeli minister Itamar Ben
Gvir’s visit to al-Aqsa compound on Wednesday as a “deliberate provocation”.
Israel’s far-right national security minister
prayed at al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday and called on prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue “complete victory” over Hamas in Gaza.
According to Reuters, in a video on the edge of
one of the most sensitive sites in the Middle East, Ben-Gvir said that two
years after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered the Gaza war, Israel
was “winning” at the Jerusalem compound known to Jews as Temple Mount and to
Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
A second video showed him praying at the
compound, in a fresh challenge to a decades-old understanding which allows only
Muslim worship at the site.
A screengrab from a video shows Israeli national
security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the al-Aqsa mosque compound on Wednesday.
Ben-Gvir said in the video released by his Jewish
Power party:
Every house in Gaza has a picture of the Temple
Mount, and today, two years later, we are winning on the Temple Mount. We are
the owners of the Temple Mount.
I only pray that our prime minister will allow a
complete victory in Gaza as well – to destroy Hamas, with God’s help we will
return the hostages, and we will win a complete victory.
His remarks were released as Israel and Hamas are
deep in indirect negotiations in Egypt to release all remaining Israeli
hostages in Gaza and end the war there.
44m ago
09.58 BST
Agence
France-Presse have a quote from senior Hamas official Taher al-Nounou.
Speaking to the news agency from the Egyptian resort town of
Sharm El-Sheikh, where indirect talks began on Monday between Israel and Hamas,
al-Nounou said:
The mediators are making great efforts to remove any
obstacles to the implementation of the ceasefire, and a spirit of optimism
prevails among all parties.
1h ago
09.36 BST
US president
Donald Trump asked Turkey to “persuade” Hamas to accept his plan for ending the
Gaza war, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a transcript shared by his
office on Wednesday.
“Both during our visit to the United States and in our most
recent phone call, we explained to Mr Trump how a solution could be achieved in
Palestine. He specifically requested that we meet with Hamas and persuade
them,” Erdoğan told Turkish journalists on board a plane returning from
Azerbaijan, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
1h ago
09.19 BST
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben
Gvir visited the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, his
spokesperson told Agence France-Presse (AFP), as indirect negotiations between
Israel and Hamas were being held in Egypt on ending the Gaza war.
The visit is Ben Gvir’s eleventh as minister to the area
which contains Islam’s third-holiest site and is Judaism’s holiest place,
revered as the site of the first and second Jewish temples.
2h ago
09.08 BST
Turkey on
Wednesday criticised an intervention by Israeli forces against a Gaza-bound aid
flotilla as an act of piracy and a violation of international law.
Turkey’s foreign ministry said the intervention against the
Freedom Flotilla, including Turkish nationals and lawmakers, showed that the
“genocidal” Israeli government targeted all peaceful measures and heightened
tensions in the region while damaging peace efforts, reports Reuters.
“The intervention in international waters against the
Freedom Flotilla … is an act of piracy,” it said in a statement, describing it
as “an attack on civil activists, including Turkish citizens and members of
parliament”.
It added in its statement that all initiatives were being
taken for Turkish citizens held by Israel to be freed and returned to Turkey,
and that it was coordinating with other countries regarding their citizens too.
2h ago
08.54 BST
Hamas
official says hostage and prisoner lists exchanged with Israel
Senior Hamas official Taher al-Nounou said on Wednesday that
negotiators from his group and Israel have exchanged lists of prisoners and
hostages who would be released should a deal be reached during the ongoing Gaza
ceasefire talks in Egypt.
According to Reuters, al-Nounou also said Hamas expressed
optimism about reaching a deal, stating that the group has demonstrated the
necessary positivity.
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