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Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party boasts of its own members attacks on Israeli soldiers in video compilation uploaded to social media.

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“It is the right of Jews to go up to this place and celebrate its liberation,” says National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Hundreds of Jews flocked to the Temple Mount Thursday morning in honor of Jerusalem Day, including a minister and several MKs.

Minister for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee Yitzhak Wasserlauf (Otzma Yehudit) went to Judaism’s holiest site early in the morning. He was followed around 9:30 by three junior Likud parliamentarians, Ariel Kallner, Dan Illouz and Amit Halevy.

National Security Minister and Otzma Yehudit party head Itamar Ben-Gvir did not visit as yet, and may not at all, as his wife was seen alone there at 9:00 a.m. When he marked the new government’s ascension to power by walking on the Mount for only a few minutes in early January as a show of sovereignty in the face of Hamas threats of violence, it sparked a wave of condemnations from the Arab world and a meeting of the UN Security Council.

In a statement, Ben-Gvir said he was “happy to see the many thousands coming up to celebrate on the Temple Mount and all those coming to Jerusalem. The Temple Mount that was liberated on Jerusalem Day 56 years ago is the holiest place for Jews, it is the right of Jews to go up to this place and celebrate its liberation.”

The Temple Mount, along with all of eastern Jerusalem, was taken back from its Jordanian occupiers in 1967’s Six Day War. The traditional Flag March through the city that celebrates the Hebrew date of Israel’s capital being reunited will take place in the evening with tens of thousands of expected participants, but its route ends at the adjacent Western Wall.

The minister said he had instructed that visitors should enjoy smooth entry to the site, without the long waiting times that are normal on other days. The holy site was also reinforced with hundreds of extra police officers to ensure their safety, and thousands of security personnel have been deployed to the capital to protect the day’s festivities.

Palestinian terror organizations have warned as in years past that they would aggressively counter the “storming of Al-Aqsa,” which is how they typically describe any visits of Jewish tourists to the Mount.

Israel has also reportedly warned Hamas that it would retaliate powerfully to any rocket fire emanating from the Gaza Strip during the day’s festivities. In 2021, the terror group launched several rockets at the capital on Jerusalem Day, setting off the 11-day Operation Guardian of the Walls, in which the IDF destroyed a large portion of the terrorist infrastructure in the coastal enclave.

An internal controversy arose in the Likud after Finance Committee chairman MK David Bitan told Army Radio following his colleagues’ visit that “it’s inappropriate for MKs from the Likud to go up to the Temple Mount, this is not what should be done. People have become extremists.”

Illouz caustically responded to Bitan’s charge, saying, “It’s impossible to accept a claim that the presence of Jews in a particular place, and certainly the holiest site of the Jewish people, is an act of extremism.”

A right-wing faction within the party, Dror B’Likud, pointed out that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called the Temple Mount “the bedrock of our existence” and had boasted of the fact that under his tenure, the number of Jews ascending the Mount had doubled and even tripled.

The group said Bitan was shifting to the Left “in an attempt to get out of the legal noose” around his neck. Bitan is currently standing trial after being indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax offenses.

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“All scenarios are open, including firing missiles from multiple fronts,” the terror official said.

By World Israel News Staff

Despite a message from Israel delivered via Egyptian mediators that Jerusalem is not interested in an escalation, terror groups said that violence is still on the table as a response to today’s Flag March in Israel’s capital city.

Speaking to the Lebanon-based, Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper, spokesmen for several Palestinian terror groups repeated their threats that the march passing through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City may see dramatic retaliation, such as rockets fired from Gaza.

“The provocations on the ground, and the attempt to change the status quo, will not pass [quietly],” a senior terrorist told Al-Akhbar, according to a Maariv report.

“Israel’s belief that the resistance in Gaza cannot start a new round is wrong, we are monitoring what is happening in Jerusalem, and we have the right to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” the terrorist continued.

“The Palestinians in Jerusalem and [Judea and Samaria] are the mosque’s first line of defense.”

According to Hebrew language media, Iran and its proxy groups are intentionally spreading misinformation on social media that marchers are planning on gathering at the Temple Mount.

Police have stressed that marchers waving Israeli flags will not be permitted to enter the compound.

“If the extremists take steps that threaten the status quo in Jerusalem, all scenarios are open, including firing missiles from multiple fronts,” the terror official added.

Although defense officials have said they believe the likelihood that rockets will be fired is low, following last week’s Operation Shield and Arrow, Iron Dome batteries were deployed and reinforced across Israel’s south.

“The march of the Zionist flags will not pass, and the response will inevitably come,” Hamas spokesman Salah al-Bardawil told Arabic-language media on Wednesday.

“This is a holiday – the policy is to allow complete freedom of movement for Jews throughout Jerusalem. All the threats of terrorism, all the threats of bullying, all the threats of provocations of one kind or another need to be shut down,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said in a statement on Thursday morning.

Ben-Gvir also added that generally speaking, Jews should be allowed to “ascend to the Temple Mount, without anyone thinking that it is possible to threaten them or harm them.”

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The legislator’s immunity was lifted and he can face up to 15 years in prison.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Jordanian MP Imad Al-Adwan was indicted Tuesday in Jordan’s State Security Court for his attempt last month to smuggle hundreds of weapons and gold into Israel through the Allenby Crossing.

The pro-Hamas legislator’s immunity was lifted in a special session of parliament so he could be tried. The public prosecutor has now charged him with “exporting weapons four times with the intent to use them illegally, and carrying out actions that would disturb public order and threaten community security.”

While the indictment only mentions four weapons smuggling incidents, Israel’s Shabak says that in the last 14 months Al-Adwan used his diplomatic passport a dozen times to enable him to run all sorts of contraband into Judea and Samaria in his car. These included e-cigarettes, birds, pigeons and gold bars, as well as firearms.

When he was caught in April, he had 194 handguns, over a dozen assault rifles, ammunition and nearly 100 kg of gold in his possession that were allegedly meant for Palestinian terrorist groups. He had been searched on this occasion by customs agents, who were tipped-off shortly before his arrival.

Al-Adwan faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges, based on Amman’s anti-terror laws. A Jordanian official told Sky News’ Arabic station that if a final verdict is filed against him, Jordan’s Constitution allows for him to be automatically removed from Parliament, without the need to be dismissed. Until then he can participate in its meetings. It was unclear if he could also vote on proposed laws.

According to news site Arab48.com, the 35-year-old parliamentarian comes from one of the most well-known tribes in Jordan. A member of the legislature’s Palestine Committee, he is a harsh critic of Israel and of any normalizing of relations between his country and the Jewish state, despite the peace treaty they signed in 1994.

His motives for smuggling may have been mixed, however, as he admitted to Israeli interrogators that he had received large sums of money for his illicit work.

Following his arrest, Jordanian security detained several of Al-Adwan’s alleged accomplices in the kingdom, who were linked to this smuggling attempt as well as previous ones. Jordan’s Petra news agency reported that they had admitted their crimes to the authorities.

Israeli forces also arrested a number of suspected colleagues in Judea and Samaria following Al-Adwan’s detention.

He was returned to Jordan to stand trial after Amman put heavy pressure on Israel, with the promise to deal with him “harshly.”

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After Likud refuses to transfer promised funds for communities in the Galilee and Negev regions, Otzma Yehudit boycotts critical votes.

By World Israel News Staff

Tensions are running high between National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the premier failed to live up to a coalition agreement with the Otzma Yehudit party to provide substantial budget funding to communities in the Negev and Galilee regions.

As an act of protest on Wednesday, Ben-Gvir, who is the head of Otzma Yehudit, ordered his party mates to boycott coalition voting. His party obeyed, with their MKs missing critical votes – leading to the opposition successfully passing a bill.

But Netanyahu’s Likud – which is the largest political party in both the Knesset and among Israeli voters – is reportedly sending a message that they will not cave to threats from their coalition partner.

According to Ynet, Likud officials told Otzma Yehudit officials that it’s “impossible to work like this” and that they would certainly not transfer the funds after the smaller party’s stunt, arguing that doing so would be “giving in to an ultimatum.”

Likud MK Ofir Katz slammed Otzma Yehudit in a statement, charging that they were “paving the way for the fall of the right-wing government.”

An anonymous Likud official told Hebrew-language media that “the fall of the right-wing government will be Ben-Gvir’s fault.”

The official alleged that the lawmaker “cares more about media coverage than maintaining the right-wing government and the integrity of the coalition…Maybe it really is better that they bring down the government. We’ll go to elections and the public will reject the parties that brought down a right-wing government.”

Despite Likud’s chastising, Otzma Yehudit MKs signaled that they are not planning to back down.

In a statement, the party said that “the residents of the Negev and the Galilee, and the periphery, are just as important as coalition discipline.”

Notably, the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party has also been expressing displeasure with the current government, threatening to bring down the coalition should a law easing the IDF exemption process for yeshiva students not be passed by the end of the month.

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The Biden administration has reportedly approached Israel with unprecedented offer to significantly upgrade U.S. military cooperation with the Jewish state.

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Thousands of officers will be deployed along the march route, and special technological means will also be employed to secure the event, including drones and cameras.

By Shimon Sherman, JNS

Jerusalem police have finalized security preparations for Thursday’s annual flag march in Jerusalem. Police have been working “hand in hand” with the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command and Jerusalem City Hall to prepare for the event, said Jerusalem District Police Chief Superintendent Yoram Segal in a statement on Wednesday.

The march, typically featuring thousands of Israeli youths waving Israeli flags, is part of the annual Jerusalem Day festivities and celebrates the city’s reunification in the 1967 Six-Day War. Setting out from the city center, the procession will pass through the Old City’s Damascus Gate and proceed through the Old City to the Western Wall. The route does not pass through the adjacent Temple Mount.

More than 2,000 police officers will secure the march’s route through the Old City, and more than 1,000 security personnel will be on duty at other celebratory events in the Israeli capital.

Several streets would be closed in the city on Thursday, but the restrictions have been designed to accommodate those living along the march’s route, including in the Old City’s Muslim Quarter, as much as possible, said Segal.

“We will attempt, to the best of our power, to allow everyone who is not participating in the march to go about their daily lives without being affected by this event,” he said.

According to Mirit Ben-Mayor, chief superintendent of the Israel Police spokesperson’s unit, preparations for the event included liaising with local businessmen and community leaders.

“We have been working with everyone, including both Muslim and Jewish leaders, as well as commercial businessmen, to prepare them for this day and make sure everyone is aware of the details. Good communication between police and community leaders is a major part of the work that we have been doing to prepare for this day,” he said.

Ben-Mayor also addressed allegations of radicalism that have appeared in both foreign and local media, dismissing it as “disinformation.”

“There has been a lot of incitement and disinformation surrounding this march. This is a festive event, and 99% of the people that will be taking part in it are peaceful people who are here to celebrate, and to reach the Western Wall” he said. The local population, including the Arab population of the Muslim Quarter, were aware that the purpose of the march is celebration and not provocation, he added.

Police also warned that any attempt to disturb the peace would be met with a harsh response.

“There is a small minority on both sides that may try to agitate or break the law,” said Ben-Mayor. “This minority who may choose to commit illegal action during the march will be prosecuted to the full extent of Israeli law. We will not allow anyone from any side to disturb the peace or endanger people’s safety. It is crucial to understand that this is not the purpose of this march; this march is a celebration of the reunification of the city,” he added.

Segal echoed the message, saying, “We will not allow violence from any part of the community.”

In fact, said Segal, police have already detained several people for incitement and threats.

In addition to officers being deployed along the march route, technological means will also be employed to secure the event, including drones and cameras, said Ben-Mayor.

Segal said that the police view this event no differently than any other major religious festival in the city, whether Christian, Jewish, Islamic or secular.

“We protect Christian festivals, and we also are very involved in religious events during the holy month of Ramadan. In the same way, we will protect the right of Jewish people to march to the holy site of the Western Wall to celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem.”

Sagal further said that Thursday’s events will not influence other religious practices across the city, specifically on the Temple Mount.

“We will maintain freedom of worship in the main religious places open to the public. Jewish visits to the Temple Mount will commence according to the usual schedule and the Muslim entrances to the Temple Mount will not be touched,” he said.

Police had proposed a general closure on Judea and Samaria on Thursday due to threats from Palestinian terrorist groups, but the move was opposed by the Israeli defense establishment, Israel National News reported on Thursday morning, citing Army Radio.

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After an extensive trial, Antoine Suggs, 40, was sentenced to 103 years in prison on Monday as retribution for the fatal shootings of four people found inside a Mercedes Benz SUV in a Wisconsin cornfield on September 12, 2021.

The victims of Suggs’ cruel and inhumane act of violence were identified as Jasmine Sturm, 30; her brother, Matthew Pettus, 26; her boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and her friend, Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30. In April, Suggs was convicted of four counts of second-degree murder.

At the sentencing hearing, the devastating losses that the victims’ families had faced were made clear. Angela Sturm, the mother of Sturm and Pettus, shared a sentiment of forever-abiding sorrow. “Not a day goes by that I don’t cry,” she said. “Being alone with my thoughts is very hard. I miss their voices. I have this irrational fear that I will forget what they look and sound like.”

Loyace Foreman’s father described the harshness of the situation, noting that the four lives were taken while Suggs still had his. For his part, Suggs declared himself the victim, alleging that the deceased was attempting to rob him and he was acting in self-defense. The judge presiding over the case, JaPaul Harris, responded that while the families may never know the true motive, Suggs must assume full responsibility for the consequence of his actions.

According to a criminal complaint, the incident began with an argument in a St. Paul bar. Following this, surveillance footage showed evidence of Suggs killing the four victims sometime between 3:30 and 3:48 a.m. on September 12.

Additionally, it was revealed that Suggs’ told his father, Darren Lee McWright, that he had “snapped” before killing the four victims. McWright was accused of driving Suggs’ to Minnesota from Wisconsin in the aftermath, for which he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.